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.