By Brown S.B. No. 531
74R5513 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of bigamy.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.01(e), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (e) An offense under this section is a state jail felony
1-7 <Class A misdemeanor>.
1-8 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-9 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-10 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-11 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-12 before the effective date.
1-13 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-14 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-15 and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
1-16 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.