75R7643 GWK-D
By Greenberg, Place H.B. No. 806
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 806:
By Talton C.S.H.B. No. 806
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the prosecution of the offense of obstruction or
1-3 retaliation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 36.06(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or
1-8 knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act:
1-9 (1) in retaliation for or on account of the service of
1-10 another as a:
1-11 (A) public servant, witness, prospective
1-12 witness, or informant;[,] or
1-13 (B) [a] person who has reported or who the actor
1-14 knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime; or
1-15 (2) to prevent or delay the service of another as a:
1-16 (A) public servant, witness, prospective
1-17 witness, or informant;[,] or
1-18 (B) [a] person who has reported or who the actor
1-19 knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.