By Kamel                                               H.B. No. 297
       74R2395 DD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of deadly conduct.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 22.05(e), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        (e)  An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class A
    1-7  misdemeanor.  An offense under Subsection (b) is a felony of the
    1-8  third degree unless the vehicle at which the actor discharges the
    1-9  firearm is a school bus, in which event the offense is a felony of
   1-10  the second degree.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-12  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-13  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-14  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-15  before that date.
   1-16        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-17  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-18  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.