82R121 CAE-D
 
  By: Jackson, Anchia, Weber H.B. No. 289
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to activity that constitutes maintaining a common
 
  nuisance.
         
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         
         SECTION 1.  Section 125.0015(a), Civil Practice and Remedies
 
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         
         (a)  A person who maintains a place to which persons
 
  habitually go for the following purposes and who knowingly
 
  tolerates the activity and furthermore fails to make reasonable
 
  attempts to abate the activity maintains a common nuisance:
               
               (1)  discharge of a firearm in a public place as
 
  prohibited by the Penal Code;
               
               (2)  reckless discharge of a firearm as prohibited by
 
  the Penal Code;
               
               (3)  engaging in organized criminal activity as a
 
  member of a combination as prohibited by the Penal Code;
               
               (4)  delivery, possession, manufacture, or use of a
 
  controlled substance in violation of Chapter 481, Health and Safety
 
  Code;
               
               (5)  gambling, gambling promotion, or communicating
 
  gambling information as prohibited by the Penal Code;
               
               (6)  prostitution, promotion of prostitution, or
 
  aggravated promotion of prostitution as prohibited by the Penal
 
  Code;
               
               (7)  compelling prostitution as prohibited by the Penal
 
  Code;
               
               (8)  commercial manufacture, commercial distribution,
 
  or commercial exhibition of obscene material as prohibited by the
 
  Penal Code;
               
               (9)  aggravated assault as described by Section 22.02,
 
  Penal Code;
               
               (10)  sexual assault as described by Section 22.011,
 
  Penal Code;
               
               (11)  aggravated sexual assault as described by Section
 
  22.021, Penal Code;
               
               (12)  robbery as described by Section 29.02, Penal
 
  Code;
               
               (13)  aggravated robbery as described by Section 29.03,
 
  Penal Code;
               
               (14)  unlawfully carrying a weapon as described by
 
  Section 46.02, Penal Code;
               
               (15)  murder as described by Section 19.02, Penal Code;
               
               (16)  capital murder as described by Section 19.03,
 
  Penal Code;
               
               (17)  continuous sexual abuse of young child or
 
  children as described by Section 21.02, Penal Code; [or]
               
               (18)  massage therapy or other massage services in
 
  violation of Chapter 455, Occupations Code;
               
               (19)  employing a minor at a sexually oriented business
 
  as defined by Section 243.002, Local Government Code;
               
               (20)  trafficking of persons as described by Section
 
  20A.02, Penal Code;
               
               (21)  sexual conduct or performance by a child as
 
  described by Section 43.25, Penal Code; or
               
               (22)  employment harmful to a child as described by
 
  Section 43.251, Penal Code.
         
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
 
  to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
 
  this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
 
  of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before that
 
  date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.