1-1 By: West S.B. No. 145 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 20, 1993; January 21, 1993, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 16, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, 1-5 Nays 0; March 16, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Whitmire x 1-9 Brown x 1-10 Nelson x 1-11 Sibley x 1-12 Sims x 1-13 Turner x 1-14 West x 1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-16 AN ACT 1-17 relating to the creation of the offense of discharging a firearm in 1-18 certain metropolitan areas. 1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-20 SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-21 Section 42.015 to read as follows: 1-22 Sec. 42.015. DISCHARGE OF FIREARM IN CERTAIN METROPOLITAN 1-23 AREAS. (a) A person commits an offense if the person recklessly 1-24 discharges a firearm inside the corporate limits of a municipality 1-25 having a population of 100,000 or more, according to the most 1-26 recent federal census. 1-27 (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. 1-28 (c) If conduct constituting an offense under this section 1-29 also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the 1-30 person may be prosecuted under either section. 1-31 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-37 * * * * * 1-38 Austin, 1-39 Texas 1-40 March 16, 1993 1-41 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-42 President of the Senate 1-43 Sir: 1-44 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B. 1-45 No. 145, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-46 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-47 pass and be printed. 1-48 Whitmire, 1-49 Chairman 1-50 * * * * * 1-51 WITNESSES 1-52 FOR AGAINST ON 1-53 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-54 FOR AGAINST ON 1-55 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-56 Name: Harold Gaither x 1-57 Representing: Self 1-58 City: Dallas 1-59 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-60 Name: Grant Lappin x 1-61 Representing: Dallas Police Dept 1-62 City: Dallas 1-63 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-64 Name: Knox Fitzpatrick x 1-65 Representing: Dallas County Dist Atty 1-66 City: Dallas 1-67 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-68 Name: Larry Castro x 2-1 Representing: City of Dallas 2-2 City: Dallas 2-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-4 Name: Dave Barber x 2-5 Representing: City of Houston 2-6 City: Houston 2-7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-8 Name: David Mintz x 2-9 Representing: Tx Apartment Assn 2-10 City: Austin 2-11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-12 Name: Bruce Todd x 2-13 Representing: Muscle Mayors 2-14 City: Austin 2-15 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-16 Name: Mary Poss x 2-17 Representing: Muscle Mayors 2-18 City: Dallas 2-19 -------------------------------------------------------------------