By:  Shelley                                          S.B. No. 1037
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the punishment provided for aggravated assault that
    1-2  causes serious bodily injury.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 22.02, Penal Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
    1-7  degree, unless the offense is committed under Subdivision (1) of
    1-8  Subsection (a) of this section, in which event the offense is a
    1-9  felony of the second degree or unless the offense is committed
   1-10  under Subdivision (2) of Subsection (a) of this section and the
   1-11  person uses a deadly weapon, in which event the offense is a felony
   1-12  of the first degree.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-14  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-15  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-16  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-17  before that date.
   1-18        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-19  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-20  and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.