By King                                               H.B. No. 1766
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to telephone solicitations.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (6), Subsection (a), Article
    1-5  5069-18.02, Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (6)  a person or affiliate of a person whose business
    1-7  is regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, except that
    1-8  this chapter shall apply to a person or affiliate of a person who
    1-9  is only regulated by the Public Utility Commission with respect to
   1-10  one or more automatic dialing announcing devices (ADADs)<;>.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  (a)  The changes in law made by this Act apply
   1-12  only to a criminal offense committed or a violation that occurs on
   1-13  or after the effective date of this Act.  For the purposes of this
   1-14  Act, a criminal offense is committed or a violation occurs before
   1-15  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense or
   1-16  violation occurs before that date.
   1-17        (b)  A criminal offense committed or violation that occurs
   1-18  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
   1-19  effect when the criminal offense was committed or the violation
   1-20  occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for this
   1-21  purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
   1-23  1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  SEVERABILITY.  If any section, sentence, clause,
    2-2  or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
    2-3  invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
    2-4  it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
    2-5  have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
    2-6  the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
    2-7  declared invalid.
    2-8        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-9  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.