By Shapiro, et al. S.B. No. 41 Substitute the following for S.B. No. 41: By Hinojosa C.S.S.B. No. 41 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to enhancement of the penalty for an offender who 1-3 manufactures or delivers a controlled substance causing death or 1-4 serious bodily injury. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 481, Health and Safety 1-7 Code, is amended by adding Section 481.140 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 481.140. SERIOUS BODILY INJURY ENHANCEMENT. (a) If it 1-9 is shown at the punishment phase of the trial of an offense under 1-10 Section 481.112, 481.1121, 481.113, or 481.114 that a person 1-11 suffered serious bodily injury by reason of the introduction of the 1-12 controlled substance into the person's body, the punishment for the 1-13 offense is increased to the punishment prescribed for the next 1-14 highest category of the offense. 1-15 (b) Subsection (a) applies regardless of whether the 1-16 defendant delivered the controlled substance to the person who 1-17 suffered serious bodily injury or to another person. 1-18 (c) In this section, "serious bodily injury" has the meaning 1-19 assigned by Section 1.07(a)(46), Penal Code. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-21 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-22 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 1-23 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 2-1 before that date. 2-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.