By Wilson H.B. No. 1183
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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. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. The
1-9 change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
1-10 on or after September 1, 1997. An offense committed before
1-11 September 1, 1997, is covered by the law in effect when the offense
1-12 was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-13 purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
1-14 before September 1, 1997, if any element of the offense occurred
1-15 before that date.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.