By Hightower H.B. No. 975
75R839 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to preventing escape as a defense to prosecution for
1-3 certain criminal offenses.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 9.01(2), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (2) "Escape" has the meaning assigned by Section 38.01
1-8 [means unauthorized departure from custody or failure to return to
1-9 custody following temporary leave for a specific purpose or limited
1-10 period, but does not include a violation of conditions of community
1-11 supervision or parole, or following leave that is part of an
1-12 intermittent sentence].
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.