By Tillery                                      H.B. No. 1290

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the reporting of suspected criminal activities of a

 1-3     paramilitary organization to the Department of Public Safety.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 411.019, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  The department shall notify the public, in the manner

 1-8     determined by the department to be the most cost-effective, that

 1-9     the public may report under this section suspected criminal

1-10     activity alleged to have been committed by a paramilitary

1-11     organization or suspected criminal activity relating to domestic

1-12     terrorism.

1-13           (d)  In this section:

1-14                 (1)  "Domestic terrorism" means any unlawful act,

1-15     including any completed or preparatory offense, involving the use

1-16     of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, or the intentional or

1-17     knowing infliction of physical injury or criminal damage to

1-18     property committed for political or financial gain with the intent

1-19     to:

1-20                       (A)  intimidate or coerce the state or any of its

1-21     political subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities, officers, or

1-22     agents; or

1-23                       (B)  cause the impairment or interruption of

1-24     public communications, public transportation, common carriers,

 2-1     public utilities, or other public services.

 2-2                 (2)  "Paramilitary organization" means an organization

 2-3     that is not an agency of the United States government or of this

 2-4     state and that engages in:

 2-5                       (A)  instruction or training in guerilla warfare

 2-6     or sabotage; or

 2-7                       (B)  rioting or the violent disruption of, or the

 2-8     violent interference with, public activities.

 2-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.