1-1     By:  Chavez (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)              H.B. No. 2879
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                 By:  West
 1-7     Amend H.B. No. 2879 as follows:
 1-8           In SECTION 1, amend Chapter 20, Penal Code (House Engrossed
 1-9     Version, on page 1, line 24) between "injury" and ".", insert "or
1-10     death"
1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12                                   AN ACT
1-13     relating to creating an offense for transporting an individual
1-14     under certain circumstances.
1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16           SECTION 1.  Chapter 20, Penal Code, is amended by adding
1-17     Section 20.05 to read as follows:
1-18           Sec. 20.05.  UNLAWFUL TRANSPORT.  (a)  A person commits an
1-19     offense if the person for pecuniary benefit transports an
1-20     individual in a manner that:
1-21                 (1)  is designed to conceal the individual from local,
1-22     state, or federal law enforcement authorities; and
1-23                 (2)  creates a substantial likelihood that the
1-24     individual will suffer serious bodily injury.
1-25           (b)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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