By Romo H.B. No. 1391 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the creation of the offense of permitting a child to 1-3 sell items or services or solicit donations at night. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 22.11 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 22.11. PERMITTING CHILD TO SELL OR SOLICIT DONATIONS AT 1-8 NIGHT. (a) A person commits an offense if the person employs, 1-9 authorizes, induces, or permits a child younger than 14 years of 1-10 age who is unaccompanied by a parent, conservator, guardian, or 1-11 other person having possession of the child under a court order to 1-12 sell items or services for or solicit donations for any individual 1-13 or entity other than a nonprofit organization between the hours of 1-14 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. 1-15 (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.