By Kamel                                                H.B. No. 93
       74R158 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the penalty for the offense of intoxication
    1-3  manslaughter.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 49.08, Penal Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 49.08.  INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER.  (a)  A person
    1-8  commits an offense if the person:
    1-9              (1)  operates a motor vehicle in a public place, an
   1-10  aircraft, or a watercraft; and
   1-11              (2)  is intoxicated and by reason of that intoxication
   1-12  causes the death of one or more other persons <another> by accident
   1-13  or mistake.
   1-14        (b)  An offense under this section is:
   1-15              (1)  a felony of the second degree if the actor causes
   1-16  the death of one other person; or
   1-17              (2)  a felony of the first degree if the actor causes
   1-18  the death of more than one other person.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-20  change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
   1-21  on or after that date.  An offense committed before the effective
   1-22  date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
   1-23  was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-24  purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
    2-1  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
    2-2  occurred before that date.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.