73R1112 CLG-F
          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 first
   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.