By: Hinojosa, Patrick S.B. No. 146
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the offense of smuggling of persons and unlawful
  transport of an individual; providing penalties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Chapter 20, Penal Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 20.  KIDNAPPING, [AND] UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT, AND
  SMUGGLING OF PERSONS
         SECTION 2.  Section 20.05, Penal Code, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 20.05.  SMUGGLING OF PERSONS [UNLAWFUL TRANSPORT].  
  (a)  A person commits an offense if the person intentionally uses a
  motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft to transport an individual
  with the intent to conceal the individual from a peace officer or
  special investigator and flees from a person the actor knows is a
  peace officer or special investigator attempting to lawfully arrest
  or detain the actor [for pecuniary benefit transports an individual
  in a manner that:
               [(1)     is designed to conceal the individual from local,
  state, or federal law enforcement authorities; and
               [(2)     creates a substantial likelihood that the
  individual will suffer serious bodily injury or death].
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), an [An] offense
  under this section is a state jail felony.
         (c)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
  degree if the actor commits the offense:
               (1)  for pecuniary benefit; or
               (2)  in a manner that creates a substantial likelihood
  that the transported individual will suffer serious bodily injury
  or death.
         (d)  It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this
  section that the actor is related to the transported individual
  within the second degree of consanguinity or, at the time of the
  offense, within the second degree of affinity.
         (e)  If conduct constituting an offense under this section
  also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
  actor may be prosecuted under either section.
         SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 71.02, Penal Code, as
  amended by Chapters 153 (S.B. 2225), 1130 (H.B. 2086), and 1357
  (S.B. 554), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is
  reenacted and amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person commits an offense if, with the intent to
  establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the
  profits of a combination or as a member of a criminal street gang,
  the person commits or conspires to commit one or more of the
  following:
               (1)  murder, capital murder, arson, aggravated
  robbery, robbery, burglary, theft, aggravated kidnapping,
  kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault, sexual
  assault, forgery, deadly conduct, assault punishable as a Class A
  misdemeanor, burglary of a motor vehicle, or unauthorized use of a
  motor vehicle;
               (2)  any gambling offense punishable as a Class A
  misdemeanor;
               (3)  promotion of prostitution, aggravated promotion
  of prostitution, or compelling prostitution;
               (4)  unlawful manufacture, transportation, repair, or
  sale of firearms or prohibited weapons;
               (5)  unlawful manufacture, delivery, dispensation, or
  distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug, or
  unlawful possession of a controlled substance or dangerous drug
  through forgery, fraud, misrepresentation, or deception;
               (6)  any unlawful wholesale promotion or possession of
  any obscene material or obscene device with the intent to wholesale
  promote the same;
               (7)  any offense under Subchapter B, Chapter 43,
  depicting or involving conduct by or directed toward a child
  younger than 18 years of age;
               (8)  any felony offense under Chapter 32;
               (9)  any offense under Chapter 36;
               (10)  any offense under Chapter 34 or 35;
               (11)  any offense under Section 37.11(a);
               (12)  any offense under Chapter 20A;
               (13)  any offense under Section 37.10; [or]
               (14)  any offense under Section 38.06, 38.07, 38.09, or
  38.11;
               (15) [(14)]  any offense under Section 42.10;
               (16) [(14)]  any offense under Section 46.06(a)(1) or
  46.14; or
               (17)  any offense under Section 20.05.
         SECTION 4.  Article 13.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 13.12.  FALSE IMPRISONMENT, [AND] KIDNAPPING, AND
  SMUGGLING OF PERSONS
         Venue for false imprisonment, [and] kidnapping, and
  smuggling of persons is in either the county in which the offense
  was committed, or in any county through, into, or out of which the
  person falsely imprisoned, [or] kidnapped, or transported may have
  been taken.
         SECTION 5.  Subdivision (2), Article 59.01, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, as amended by Chapters 153 (S.B. 2225), 1130 (H.B.
  2086), and 1357 (S.B. 554), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2009, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
               (2)  "Contraband" means property of any nature,
  including real, personal, tangible, or intangible, that is:
                     (A)  used in the commission of:
                           (i)  any first or second degree felony under
  the Penal Code;
                           (ii)  any felony under Section 15.031(b),
  20.05, 21.11, 38.04, Subchapter B of Chapter 43, or Chapter 29, 30,
  31, 32, 33, 33A, or 35, Penal Code;
                           (iii)  any felony under The Securities Act
  (Article 581-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); or
                           (iv)  any offense under Chapter 49, Penal
  Code, that is punishable as a felony of the third degree or state
  jail felony, if the defendant has been previously convicted three
  times of an offense under that chapter;
                     (B)  used or intended to be used in the commission
  of:
                           (i)  any felony under Chapter 481, Health
  and Safety Code (Texas Controlled Substances Act);
                           (ii)  any felony under Chapter 483, Health
  and Safety Code;
                           (iii)  a felony under Chapter 153, Finance
  Code;
                           (iv)  any felony under Chapter 34, Penal
  Code;
                           (v)  a Class A misdemeanor under Subchapter
  B, Chapter 365, Health and Safety Code, if the defendant has been
  previously convicted twice of an offense under that subchapter;
                           (vi)  any felony under Chapter 152, Finance
  Code;
                           (vii)  any felony under Chapter 32, Human
  Resources Code, or Chapter 31, 32, 35A, or 37, Penal Code, that
  involves the state Medicaid program;
                           (viii)  a Class B misdemeanor under Chapter
  522, Business & Commerce Code;
                           (ix)  a Class A misdemeanor under Section
  306.051, Business & Commerce Code; [or]
                           (x)  any offense under Section 42.10, Penal
  Code;
                           (xi) [(x)]  any offense under Section
  46.06(a)(1) or 46.14, Penal Code;
                           (xii) [(x)]  any offense under Chapter 71,
  Penal Code; or
                           (xiii)  any offense under Section 20.05,
  Penal Code;
                     (C)  the proceeds gained from the commission of a
  felony listed in Paragraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, a
  misdemeanor listed in Paragraph (B)(viii), [or] (x), (xi), or (xii)
  of this subdivision, or a crime of violence;
                     (D)  acquired with proceeds gained from the
  commission of a felony listed in Paragraph (A) or (B) of this
  subdivision, a misdemeanor listed in Paragraph (B)(viii), [or] (x),
  (xi), or (xii) of this subdivision, or a crime of violence; or
                     (E)  used to facilitate or intended to be used to
  facilitate the commission of a felony under Section 15.031 or
  43.25, Penal Code.
         SECTION 6.  The changes in law made by this Act in amending
  Sections 20.05 and 71.02, Penal Code, apply only to an offense
  committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  An offense
  committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
  law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this section,
  an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if
  any element of the offense occurred before that date.
         SECTION 7.  The change in law made by this Act in amending
  Subdivision (2), Article 59.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies
  only to the forfeiture of property in relation to an offense
  committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  Forfeiture of
  property in relation to an offense committed before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense
  was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
  occurred before that date.
         SECTION 8.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
  over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011,
  relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
  codes.
         SECTION 9.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.