By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1162
73R6578 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of injury to a child,
1-3 elderly individual, or invalid.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 22.04(e), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (e) An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this
1-8 section is a felony of the first degree when the conduct is
1-9 committed intentionally or knowingly. When the conduct is engaged
1-10 in recklessly it shall be a felony of the second <third> degree.
1-11 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-12 only to the punishment for an offense committed on or after the
1-13 effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an
1-14 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
1-15 element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
1-16 (b) The punishment for an offense committed before the
1-17 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-18 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
1-19 for this purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-21 SECTION 4. 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
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.