By: Wentworth S.B. No. 627 73R3474 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of false report of an 1-3 emergency. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 42.06(b), Penal Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor 1-8 unless the false report is of an emergency involving a public 1-9 primary or secondary school, public communications, public 1-10 transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public 1-11 service, in which event the offense is a felony of the third 1-12 degree. 1-13 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-14 only to the punishment for an offense committed on or after the 1-15 effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an 1-16 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any 1-17 element of the offense is committed before the effective date. 1-18 (b) The punishment for an offense committed before the 1-19 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 1-20 offense is committed, and the former law is continued in effect for 1-21 that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.