By Davila H.B. No. 1641
75R2948 JMC-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the prosecution of the offense of hindering the
1-3 apprehension or prosecution of another.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 38.05(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to hinder
1-8 the arrest, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of another for
1-9 an offense, with intent to hinder the imposition of a sanction on
1-10 another for a violation of a condition of community supervision or
1-11 parole, or[,] with intent to hinder the arrest, detention,
1-12 adjudication, or disposition of a child for engaging in delinquent
1-13 conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of felony, he:
1-14 (1) harbors or conceals the other;
1-15 (2) provides or aids in providing the other with any
1-16 means of avoiding arrest or effecting escape; or
1-17 (3) warns the other of impending discovery or
1-18 apprehension.
1-19 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-20 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-21 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-22 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-23 before that date.
1-24 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
2-1 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
2-2 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.