By Wilson                                               H.B. No. 66
       74R1872 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of making a false report to a peace
    1-3  officer.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 37.08, Penal Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 37.08.  FALSE REPORT TO PEACE OFFICER.  (a)  A person
    1-8  commits an offense if:
    1-9              (1)  <,> with intent to deceive, he knowingly makes a
   1-10  false statement to a peace officer conducting a criminal
   1-11  investigation and the statement is material to the investigation;
   1-12  or
   1-13              (2)  he makes a report to a peace officer relating to
   1-14  an offense or incident within the officer's concern and in the
   1-15  report intentionally identifies or describes incorrectly a suspect.
   1-16        (b)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1) <this section> is a
   1-17  Class B misdemeanor.  An offense under Subsection (a)(2) is a
   1-18  felony of the third degree.
   1-19        (c)  If conduct constituting an offense under this section
   1-20  also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the
   1-21  actor may be prosecuted under either section.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-23  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-24  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
    2-1  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense is
    2-2  committed before that date.
    2-3        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
    2-4  Act is covered by the law in effect when that offense was
    2-5  committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
    2-6  purpose.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.