By Tillery H.B. No. 1290 75R5026 KEL-D 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.