Text of section effective on September 01, 2023
- (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly causes, enables, encourages, recruits, or solicits another person to become a member of a criminal street gang which, as a condition of initiation, admission, membership, or continued membership, requires the commission of any conduct which constitutes an offense punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or a felony.
- (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
- (c) A second or subsequent offense under this section is a felony of the second degree.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1555, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.