Bill Text: TX SB1691 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the disruption of quiet enjoyment of a residence with pamphlets, leaflets, or flyers demonstrating ethnic or religious animus; providing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-27 - Filed [SB1691 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1691-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1691 | |
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| relating to the disruption of quiet enjoyment of a residence with | ||
| pamphlets, leaflets, or flyers demonstrating ethnic or religious | ||
| animus; providing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 4, Property Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Chapter 32 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 32. CIVIL PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN DISRUPTIONS OF QUIET | ||
| ENJOYMENT OF PROPERTY | ||
| Sec. 32.001. CIVIL PENALTY FOR DISRUPTION OF QUIET | ||
| ENJOYMENT OF RESIDENCE WITH CERTAIN HATE SPEECH. (a) A person who | ||
| interferes with another person's quiet enjoyment of that person's | ||
| residence by distributing a pamphlet, leaflet, or flyer that | ||
| demonstrates ethnic or religious animus is subject to a civil | ||
| penalty in an amount of $5,000. | ||
| (b) The attorney general or a district or county attorney | ||
| may bring an action to collect a civil penalty under this section. | ||
| The attorney general or district or county attorney may recover | ||
| reasonable attorney's fees and costs incurred in bringing the | ||
| action. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 32.001, Property Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a pamphlet, leaflet, or flyer distributed on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
