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. 1-29 * * * * *