By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1389
         76R6185 KEL-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the offense of fighting between a dog
 1-3     and a hog.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 42, Penal Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Section 42.101 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 42.101.  FIGHTING BETWEEN DOG AND HOG.  (a)  A person
 1-8     commits an offense if the person knowingly:
 1-9                 (1)  causes a dog to fight with a hog;
1-10                 (2)  for a pecuniary benefit causes a dog to fight with
1-11     a hog;
1-12                 (3)  participates in the earnings of or operates a
1-13     facility used for fighting between a dog and a hog;
1-14                 (4)  uses or permits another to use any real estate,
1-15     building, room, tent, arena, or other property for fighting between
1-16     a dog and a hog;
1-17                 (5)  owns or trains a dog with the intent that the dog
1-18     be used in an exhibition of fighting between the dog and a hog; or
1-19                 (6)  attends as a spectator an exhibition of fighting
1-20     between a dog and a hog.
1-21           (b)  In this section, "fighting between a dog and a hog"
1-22     means any situation in which a dog attacks or fights with a hog or
1-23     a hog attacks or fights with a dog.
1-24           (c)  A conviction under Subsection (a)(2), (3), or (4) may be
 2-1     had on the uncorroborated testimony of a party to the offense.
 2-2           (d)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1) or (5) is a Class A
 2-3     misdemeanor.  An offense under Subsection (a)(2), (3), or (4) is a
 2-4     state jail felony.  An offense under Subsection (a)(6) is a Class C
 2-5     misdemeanor.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.