By Brown                                               S.B. No. 286
       74R1382 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons considered to be a spouse for purposes of the
    1-3  prosecution of sexual assaults.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 22.011(c)(2), Penal Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7              (2)  "Spouse" means a person who is legally married to
    1-8  another<, except that persons married to each other are not treated
    1-9  as spouses if they do not reside together or if there is an action
   1-10  pending between them for dissolution of the marriage or for
   1-11  separate maintenance>.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.