1-1 By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1090
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 14, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
1-5 Nays 0; April 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the violation of a court order enjoining a person from
1-9 engaging in certain organized criminal activity; providing a
1-10 criminal penalty.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 71, Penal Code, is amended by adding
1-13 Section 71.021 to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 71.021. VIOLATION OF COURT ORDER ENJOINING ORGANIZED
1-15 CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. (a) A person commits an offense if the person
1-16 knowingly violates a temporary or permanent order issued under
1-17 Section 125.065(a) or (b), Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
1-18 (b) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
1-19 also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
1-20 actor may be prosecuted under either section or under both
1-21 sections.
1-22 (c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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