By: Nelson S.B. No. 1056 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the efficient operation of the state criminal justice 1-2 system, including the preservation of the Penal Code, creation of 1-3 criminal offenses, and punishment of offenses. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 10, Section 11.17, 1991 Session Laws, 1-6 Seventy-Second Legislature, Second Called Session, is repealed. 1-7 The Penal Code in its entirety, and complete with all the 1-8 amendments thereto, will remain in full force beyond September 1, 1-9 1994, as if the act had never been enacted. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1994. There 1-11 shall be a continuous application of the Penal Code without any 1-12 lapse in time. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.