By: Watson S.B. No. 1649               A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to an enhanced penalty for repeated criminal trespass on   or in the property of a public institution of higher education.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 30.05, Penal Code, is amended by   amending Subsection (d), and adding Subsection (j), to read as   follows:          (d)  An offense under this section is:                (1)  a Class B misdemeanor, except as provided by   Subdivisions (2) and (3);                (2)  a Class C misdemeanor, except as provided by   Subdivision (3), if the offense is committed:                      (A)  on agricultural land and within 100 feet of   the boundary of the land; or                      (B)  on residential land and within 100 feet of a   protected freshwater area; and                (3)  a Class A misdemeanor if:                      (A)  the offense is committed:                            (i)  in a habitation or a shelter center;                            (ii)  on a Superfund site; or                            (iii)  on or in a critical infrastructure   facility; [or]                      (B)  the person carries a deadly weapon during the   commission of the offense; or                      (C) the offense committed on or in the property of   an institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003,   Education Code, and it is shown on the trial of the offense that the   defendant has been previously convicted of an offense under this   section for entering or remaining on or in the property of an   institution of higher education.          (j)  For the purposes of Subsection (d)(3)(C), a defendant   has been previously convicted under this section if the defendant   was adjudged guilty of the offense or entered a plea of guilty or   nolo contendere in return for a grant of deferred adjudication,   regardless of whether the sentence for the offense was ever imposed   or whether the sentence was probated and the defendant was   subsequently discharged from community supervision.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.