By Ellis S.B. No. 1729 76R4024 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the possession or carrying of weapons on certain 1-3 premises associated with a school or educational institution; 1-4 providing penalties. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 46.03(c), Penal Code, is amended to read 1-7 as follows: 1-8 (c) In this section: 1-9 (1) "Premises" has the meaning assigned by Section 1-10 46.035, except as provided by Subdivision (2). 1-11 (2) "Premises," for the purposes of Subsection (a)(1), 1-12 means a building, a portion of a building, a public or private 1-13 driveway, street, sidewalk or walkway, parking lot, parking garage, 1-14 or other parking area. 1-15 (3) "Secured area" means an area of an airport 1-16 terminal building to which access is controlled by the inspection 1-17 of persons and property under federal law. 1-18 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-19 to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-20 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 1-21 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 1-22 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For 1-23 purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the 1-24 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred 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.