By Romo                                               H.B. No. 1324
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1324:
          By Oliveira                                       C.S.H.B. No. 1324
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of the offense of permitting a child to
    1-3  sell items or services or solicit donations at night.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Penal Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 22.11 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 22.11.  PERMITTING CHILD TO SELL OR SOLICIT DONATIONS.
    1-8  (a)  A person commits an offense if the person employs, authorizes,
    1-9  induces, or permits a child younger than 14 years of age who is
   1-10  unaccompanied by a parent, conservator, guardian, or other person
   1-11  having possession of the child under a court order to sell items or
   1-12  services for or solicit donations for any individual or entity
   1-13  other than an exempt organization.
   1-14        (b)  For purposes of this section, "exempt organization"
   1-15  means:
   1-16              (1)  a charitable organization, as that term is defined
   1-17  under Section 84.003, Civil Practice and Remedies Code;
   1-18              (2)  an organization regulated under Title 15, Election
   1-19  Code; or
   1-20              (3)  a club, organization, or other group engaged in a
   1-21  fund-raising activity for the club, organization, or group if the
   1-22  activity is sponsored by a public or private primary or secondary
   1-23  school.
   1-24        (c)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  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.