By Whitmire                                           S.B. No. 1090
       74R4265 DD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the violation of a court order enjoining a person from
    1-3  engaging in certain organized criminal activity; providing a
    1-4  criminal penalty.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 71, Penal Code, is amended by adding
    1-7  Section 71.021 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 71.021.  VIOLATION OF COURT ORDER ENJOINING ORGANIZED
    1-9  CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.  (a)  A person commits an offense if the person
   1-10  knowingly violates a temporary or permanent order issued under
   1-11  Section 125.065(a) or (b), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
   1-12        (b)  If conduct constituting an offense under this section
   1-13  also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
   1-14  actor may be prosecuted under either section or under both
   1-15  sections.
   1-16        (c)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.