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.