88S30077 MZM-D
	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 35

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to increasing the criminal penalty for making a false
	report of a bomb threat involving certain locations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 42.06(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	(b)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor,
	except that the offense is:
	(1)  a state jail felony if [unless] the false report is
	of an emergency involving a public or private institution of higher
	education or involving a public primary or secondary school, public
	communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power
	supply or other public service; or
	(2)  a felony of the third degree if the false report is
	of a bombing involving:
	(A)  a public or private primary or secondary
	school;
	(B)  a public or private institution of higher
	education;
	(C)  a proprietary, vocational, or technical
	school; or
	(D)  an established place of religious worship [,
	in which event the offense is a state jail felony].
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
	before that date.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: Penal Code 42.06 (Penal Code 42)