By Shields                                             H.B. No. 131
       74R1732 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the punishment for certain assaults committed on
    1-3  employees of certain primary or secondary schools.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 22.01(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (c)  An offense under Subsection (a)(2) or (3) is a Class C
    1-8  misdemeanor unless the offense is committed against a classroom
    1-9  teacher, counselor, principal, or similar instructional or
   1-10  administrative employee of a primary or secondary school accredited
   1-11  by the Central Education Agency while the employee is engaged in
   1-12  performing the employee's educational duties,  in which event the
   1-13  offense is a Class B misdemeanor.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-15  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-16  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-17  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-18  before the effective date.
   1-19        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-20  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-21  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.