1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 329
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 28, 1997; February 3, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 February 12, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 6, Nays 0; February 12, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the offense of making a false report to a peace officer
1-9 or to an employee of a law enforcement agency.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 37.08, Penal Code, is amended to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 Sec. 37.08. FALSE REPORT TO PEACE OFFICER OR LAW ENFORCEMENT
1-14 EMPLOYEE. (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to
1-15 deceive, he knowingly makes a false statement that is material to a
1-16 criminal investigation and makes the statement to:
1-17 (1) a peace officer conducting the [a criminal]
1-18 investigation; or
1-19 (2) any employee of a law enforcement agency that is
1-20 conducting [and the statement is material to] the investigation.
1-21 (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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