By Puente                                              H.B. No. 961
       74R3783 DD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the punishment for the offense of deadly conduct.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 22.05(b) and (e), Penal Code, are
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  A person commits an offense if he knowingly discharges a
    1-7  firearm at or in the direction of:
    1-8              (1)  one or more individuals; <or>
    1-9              (2)  a <habitation,> building<,> or vehicle and is
   1-10  reckless as to whether the <habitation,> building<,> or vehicle is
   1-11  occupied; or
   1-12              (3)  a habitation.
   1-13        (e)  An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class A
   1-14  misdemeanor.  An offense under Subsection (b)(1) or (b)(2) <(b)> is
   1-15  a felony of the third degree.  An offense under Subsection (b)(3)
   1-16  is a felony of the first degree.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-18  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-19  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-20  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-21  before that date.
   1-22        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-23  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-24  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.