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.