S.B. No. 134 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the punishment for certain assaults committed by one 1-2 member of a family against another family member. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 22.01, Penal Code, is amended by amending 1-5 Subsection (b) and by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (b) An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a Class A 1-7 misdemeanor unless it is shown on the trial of the offense that the 1-8 offense was committed against a family member and that the 1-9 defendant has been previously convicted of an offense against a 1-10 family member under this section two or more times, in which event 1-11 the offense is a state jail felony. 1-12 (d) In this section, "family" has the meaning assigned by 1-13 Section 71.01, Family Code. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-15 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-16 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 1-17 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-18 before the effective date. 1-19 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-20 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-21 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.