By Wentworth S.B. No. 240
77R3216 JMG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the offense of hindering apprehension or prosecution.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 38.05(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to hinder
1-7 the arrest, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of another [for
1-8 an offense] or, with intent to hinder the arrest, detention,
1-9 adjudication, or disposition of a child for engaging in delinquent
1-10 conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of felony, the
1-11 person [he]:
1-12 (1) harbors or conceals the other;
1-13 (2) provides or aids in providing the other with any
1-14 means of avoiding arrest or effecting escape; or
1-15 (3) warns the other of impending discovery or
1-16 apprehension.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-18 applies only to an offense committed on or after that date. An
1-19 offense committed before the effective date of this Act is covered
1-20 by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former
1-21 law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this
1-22 section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this
1-23 Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.