By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 104
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the punishment for certain assaults committed on
    1-2  employees of certain primary or secondary schools; providing
    1-3  penalties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 22.01, Penal Code, is amended by amending
    1-6  Subsections (b) and (c) and by adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (b)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a Class A
    1-9  misdemeanor unless the offense is committed against a classroom
   1-10  teacher, principal, bus driver, or other employee of a primary or
   1-11  secondary school accredited by the Central Education Agency while
   1-12  the employee is engaged in performing duties within the scope of
   1-13  employment, in which event the offense is a felony of the third
   1-14  degree.
   1-15        (c)  An offense under Subsection (a)(2) <or (3)> is a Class C
   1-16  misdemeanor unless the offense is committed against a classroom
   1-17  teacher, principal, bus driver, or other employee of a primary or
   1-18  secondary school accredited by the Central Education Agency while
   1-19  the employee is engaged in performing duties within the scope of
   1-20  employment, in which event the offense is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-21        (d)  An offense under Subsection (a)(3) is a Class C
   1-22  misdemeanor unless the offense is committed against a classroom
   1-23  teacher, principal, bus driver, or other employee of a primary or
    2-1  secondary school accredited by the Central Education Agency while
    2-2  the employee is engaged in performing duties within the scope of
    2-3  employment, in which event the offense is a Class A misdemeanor.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
    2-5  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
    2-6  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
    2-7  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
    2-8  before the effective date.
    2-9        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   2-10  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   2-11  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-13        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.