By:  Cain                                             S.B. No. 1308
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to telephone solicitations.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (6), Subsection (a), Article
    1-4  5069-18.02, Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5              (6)  a person or affiliate of a person whose business
    1-6  is regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, except that
    1-7  this chapter shall apply to a person or affiliate of a person who
    1-8  is only regulated by the Public Utility Commission with respect to
    1-9  one or more automatic dialing announcing devices (ADADs)<;>.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  (a)  The changes in law made by this Act apply
   1-11  only to a criminal offense committed or a violation that occurs on
   1-12  or after the effective date of this Act.  For the purposes of this
   1-13  Act, a criminal offense is committed or a violation occurs before
   1-14  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense or
   1-15  violation occurs before that date.
   1-16        (b)  A criminal offense committed or violation that occurs
   1-17  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the the law in
   1-18  effect when the criminal offense was committed or the violation
   1-19  occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for this
   1-20  purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect
   1-22  September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  SEVERABILITY.  If any section, sentence, clause,
    2-1  or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
    2-2  invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
    2-3  it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
    2-4  have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
    2-5  the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
    2-6  declared invalid.
    2-7        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-8  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.