By:  Naishtat                                          H.B. No. 919
       73R2410 KLL-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of coercion of a public servant.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 36.03, Penal Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-6        (d)  The exception provided by Subsection (c) of this section
    1-7  does not apply if a member of the governing body of a governmental
    1-8  entity uses coercion to intentionally or knowingly obtain for the
    1-9  member a benefit.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-11  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-12  Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
   1-13  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
   1-14  occurs before the effective date.
   1-15        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-16  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-17  and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-19        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.