By: Brown S.B. No. 329
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the offense of making a false report to a peace officer
1-2 or to an employee of a law enforcement agency.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 37.08, Penal Code, is amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 Sec. 37.08. FALSE REPORT TO PEACE OFFICER OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
1-7 EMPLOYEE. (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to
1-8 deceive, he knowingly makes a false statement that is material to a
1-9 criminal investigation and makes the statement to:
1-10 (1) a peace officer conducting the [a criminal]
1-11 investigation; or
1-12 (2) any employee of a law enforcement agency that the
1-13 actor knows is conducting [and the statement is material to] the
1-14 investigation.
1-15 (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.