By: Wilson H.B. No. 1364
73R5627 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the offense of making a false report to a peace
1-3 officer.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.08, Penal Code, is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 37.08. False Report to Peace Officer. (a) A person
1-8 commits an offense if he:
1-9 (1) reports to a peace officer an offense or incident
1-10 within the officer's concern, knowing that the offense or incident
1-11 did not occur; <or>
1-12 (2) makes a report to a peace officer relating to an
1-13 offense or incident within the officer's concern knowing that he
1-14 has no information relating to the offense or incident; or
1-15 (3) makes a report to a peace officer relating to an
1-16 offense or incident within the officer's concern and in the report
1-17 intentionally identifies or describes incorrectly a suspect.
1-18 (b) An offense under Subsection (a)(1) or (2) of this
1-19 section is a Class B misdemeanor. An offense under Subsection
1-20 (a)(3) of this section is a felony of the third degree.
1-21 (c) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
1-22 also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
1-23 actor may be prosecuted under either section.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.