By: Rosson S.B. No. 741
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to Section 36.02 of the Penal Code.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 36.02 (d) of the Texas Penal Code is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (d) It is an exception to the application of Subdivisions
1-6 (1), (2), <and> (3) and (4) of Subsection (a) of this section that
1-7 the benefit is a political contribution accepted as defined by
1-8 Title 15, Election Code or a noncash, nonnegotiable benefit of a
1-9 value of less than $50 required to be reported under Chapter 305 of
1-10 the Government Code.
1-11 SECTION 2. This act is effective on September 1, 1993.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.