By De La Garza, et al. H.B. No. 16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of retaliation. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 36.06(c), Penal Code, is amended to read 1-5 as follows: 1-6 (c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third 1-7 degree unless the person uses or exhibits a deadly weapon or causes 1-8 serious bodily injury to another person during the commission of 1-9 the offense, in which event the offense is a felony of the second 1-10 degree. 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-12 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-13 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 1-14 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-15 before the effective date. 1-16 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-17 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-18 and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.