72S40434 GWK-D
          By Greenberg                                           H.B. No. 101
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the punishment for the offense of injury to a child,
    1-3  elderly individual, or invalid.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 22.04(e), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (e)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this
    1-8  section is a felony of the first degree when the conduct is
    1-9  committed intentionally or knowingly.  When the conduct is engaged
   1-10  in recklessly it shall be a felony of the second <third> degree.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-12  only to the punishment for an offense committed on or after the
   1-13  effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
   1-14  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-15  element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
   1-16        (b)  The punishment for an offense committed before the
   1-17  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
   1-18  offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
   1-19  for this purpose.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect April 1, 1993.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.