By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1090
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the violation of a court order enjoining a person from
1-2 engaging in certain organized criminal activity; providing a
1-3 criminal penalty.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 71, Penal Code, is amended by adding
1-6 Section 71.021 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 71.021. VIOLATION OF COURT ORDER ENJOINING ORGANIZED
1-8 CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. (a) A person commits an offense if the person
1-9 knowingly violates a temporary or permanent order issued under
1-10 Section 125.065(a) or (b), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
1-11 (b) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
1-12 also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
1-13 actor may be prosecuted under either section or under both
1-14 sections.
1-15 (c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.