H.B. No. 93
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the imposition of a sentence for the offense of
    1-3  intoxication manslaughter.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3.03, Penal Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 3.03.  Sentences for Offenses Arising Out of Same
    1-8  Criminal Episode.  (a)  When the accused is found guilty of more
    1-9  than one offense arising out of the same criminal episode
   1-10  prosecuted in a single criminal action, a sentence for each offense
   1-11  for which he has been found guilty shall be pronounced.  Except as
   1-12  provided by Subsection (b), the <Such> sentences shall run
   1-13  concurrently.
   1-14        (b)  If the accused is found guilty of more than one offense
   1-15  arising out of the same criminal episode, the sentences may run
   1-16  concurrently or consecutively if each sentence is for a conviction
   1-17  of:
   1-18              (1)  an offense under Section 49.08; or
   1-19              (2)  an offense for which a plea agreement was reached
   1-20  in a case in which the accused was charged with more than one
   1-21  offense under Section 49.08.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-23  to the joinder of prosecutions of offenses arising out of a single
   1-24  criminal episode only if each offense is committed on or after the
    2-1  effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
    2-2  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
    2-3  element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
    2-4        (b)  The joinder of prosecutions for offenses arising out of
    2-5  a single criminal episode if any of the offenses were committed
    2-6  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
    2-7  effect before the changes made by this Act, and the former law is
    2-8  continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.