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.
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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
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1-51 WITNESSES
1-52 FOR AGAINST ON
1-53 ___________________________________________________________________
1-54 FOR AGAINST ON
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1-56 Name: Harold Gaither x
1-57 Representing: Self
1-58 City: Dallas
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1-60 Name: Grant Lappin x
1-61 Representing: Dallas Police Dept
1-62 City: Dallas
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1-64 Name: Knox Fitzpatrick x
1-65 Representing: Dallas County Dist Atty
1-66 City: Dallas
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1-68 Name: Larry Castro x
2-1 Representing: City of Dallas
2-2 City: Dallas
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2-4 Name: Dave Barber x
2-5 Representing: City of Houston
2-6 City: Houston
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2-8 Name: David Mintz x
2-9 Representing: Tx Apartment Assn
2-10 City: Austin
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2-12 Name: Bruce Todd x
2-13 Representing: Muscle Mayors
2-14 City: Austin
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2-16 Name: Mary Poss x
2-17 Representing: Muscle Mayors
2-18 City: Dallas
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