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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