By: West S.B. No. 145 73R2870 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the creation of the offense of discharging a firearm in 1-3 certain metropolitan areas. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 42.015 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 42.015. DISCHARGE OF FIREARM IN CERTAIN METROPOLITAN 1-8 AREAS. (a) A person commits an offense if the person recklessly 1-9 discharges a firearm inside the corporate limits of a municipality 1-10 having a population of 100,000 or more, according to the most 1-11 recent federal census. 1-12 (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. 1-13 (c) If conduct constituting an offense under this section 1-14 also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the 1-15 person may be prosecuted under either section. 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.