By: West S.B. No. 152
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the punishment for escape committed by certain
1-2 juveniles in the custody of the Texas Youth Commission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 38.06, Penal Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third
1-7 degree if the actor:
1-8 (1) is under arrest for, charged with, or convicted of
1-9 a felony; [or]
1-10 (2) is confined in a secure correctional facility; or
1-11 (3) is committed to a secure correctional facility, as
1-12 defined by Section 51.02, Family Code, other than a halfway house,
1-13 operated by or under contract with the Texas Youth Commission.
1-14 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-15 only to an offense committed or, for the purposes of Title 3,
1-16 Family Code, to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date
1-17 of this Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed
1-18 on or after the effective date of this Act if every element of the
1-19 offense occurs on or after that date, and conduct violating a penal
1-20 law of this state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act
1-21 if every element of the violation occurs on or after that date.
1-22 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-23 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-24 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is
2-2 covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct occurred, and
2-3 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.