By Solis of Cameron                                   H.B. No. 1118
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the offense of coercing, soliciting, or
 1-3     inducing a child to participate in the activities of a criminal
 1-4     street gang.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Penal Code, is amended by adding
 1-7     Section 22.015 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 22.015.  COERCING, SOLICITING, OR INDUCING GANG
 1-9     MEMBERSHIP.  (a)  In this section:
1-10                 (1)  "Child" means an individual younger than 17 years
1-11     of age.
1-12                 (2)  "Criminal street gang" has the meaning assigned by
1-13     Section 71.01.
1-14           (b)  A person commits an offense if, with intent to coerce,
1-15     induce, or solicit a child to actively participate in the
1-16     activities of a criminal street gang, the person threatens the
1-17     child with imminent bodily injury.
1-18           (c)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
1-19     degree.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.