By Palmer                                              H.B. No. 947
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                                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.