By Delisi H.B. No. 2621 74R7246 DAK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the offense of hindering the apprehension or 1-3 adjudication of a child who engages in certain delinquent conduct. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 38.05(a) and (c), Penal Code, are 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to hinder 1-8 the arrest, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of another for 1-9 an offense or, with intent to hinder the arrest, detention, 1-10 adjudication, or disposition of a child for engaging in delinquent 1-11 conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of felony, he: 1-12 (1) harbors or conceals the other; 1-13 (2) provides or aids in providing the other with any 1-14 means of avoiding arrest or effecting escape; or 1-15 (3) warns the other of impending discovery or 1-16 apprehension. 1-17 (c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, 1-18 except that the offense is a felony of the third degree if the 1-19 person who is harbored, concealed, provided with a means of 1-20 avoiding arrest or effecting escape, or warned of discovery or 1-21 apprehension is under arrest for, charged with, or convicted of a 1-22 felony, or is in custody or detention for, is alleged in a petition 1-23 to have engaged in, or has been adjudicated as having engaged in 1-24 delinquent conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of 2-1 felony, and the person charged under this section knew that the 2-2 person they harbored, concealed, provided with a means of avoiding 2-3 arrest or effecting escape, or warned of discovery or apprehension 2-4 is under arrest for, charged with, or convicted of a felony, or is 2-5 in custody or detention for, is alleged in a petition to have 2-6 engaged in, or has been adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent 2-7 conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of felony. 2-8 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section 2-9 38.05, Penal Code, applies only to a criminal offense committed on 2-10 or after the effective date of this Act. 2-11 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-12 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.