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.