Bill Text: TX SB844 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 844 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the offense of escape from custody by a person lawfully detained.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB844 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB844-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 844




	AN ACT
	relating to the offense of escape from custody by a person lawfully
	detained.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 38.06, Penal
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a) A person commits an offense if the person [he] escapes
	from custody when the person [he] is:
	(1) under arrest for, lawfully detained for, charged
	with, or convicted of an offense;
	(2) in custody pursuant to a lawful order of a court;
	(3) detained in a secure detention facility, as that
	term is defined by Section 51.02, Family Code; or
	(4) in the custody of a juvenile probation officer for
	violating an order imposed by the juvenile court under Section
	52.01, Family Code.
	(c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third
	degree if the actor:
	(1) is under arrest for, charged with, or convicted of
	a felony;
	(2) is confined or lawfully detained in a secure
	correctional facility or law enforcement facility; or
	(3) is committed to or lawfully detained in a secure
	correctional facility, as defined by Section 51.02, Family Code,
	other than a halfway house, operated by or under contract with the
	Texas Youth Commission.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies 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 was committed before that
	date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 844 passed the Senate on
	April 14, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2011, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 844 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147,
	Nays 0, one present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor