By:  Brown, Moncrief                                   S.B. No. 286
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to persons considered to be a spouse for purposes of the
    1-2  prosecution of sexual assaults.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Subsection (c), Section 22.011,
    1-5  Penal Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (2)  "Spouse" means a person who is legally married to
    1-7  another<, except that persons married to each other are not treated
    1-8  as spouses if they do not reside together or if there is an action
    1-9  pending between them for dissolution of the marriage or for
   1-10  separate maintenance>.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.