By Wentworth                                           S.B. No. 240
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                                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.