By Palmer H.B. No. 947
76R4577 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the criminal penalty for a violation of law relating to
1-3 the regulation of fireworks.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 19(b), Article 5.43-4, Insurance Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) An offense under this section is a Class C [B]
1-8 misdemeanor, except that the offense is a Class B misdemeanor if it
1-9 is shown on the trial of the offense that the offense resulted in
1-10 bodily injury or in property damage of $200 or more.
1-11 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-12 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-13 Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
1-14 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
1-15 occurs before that date.
1-16 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-17 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-18 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.