Bill Text: TX HB1284 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the offense of making or causing a false alarm or report involving a public or private institution of higher education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1284 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1284-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the offense of making or causing a false alarm or report involving a public or private institution of higher education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1284 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1284-Comm_Sub.html
By: Johnson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | H.B. No. 1284 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2013; | ||
April 29, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Criminal Justice; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the offense of making or causing a false alarm or report | ||
involving a public or private institution of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.219 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.219. NOTIFICATION OF PENALTY FOR FALSE ALARM OR | ||
REPORT. (a) In this section, "institution of higher education" and | ||
"private or independent institution of higher education" have the | ||
meanings assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
(b) Each institution of higher education and private or | ||
independent institution of higher education shall notify all | ||
incoming students, as soon as practicable, of the penalty for the | ||
offense under Section 42.06, Penal Code, of making a false alarm or | ||
report involving a public or private institution of higher | ||
education. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), a private or | ||
independent institution of higher education is not required to | ||
comply with Subsection (b) if the institution determines that | ||
providing notice as required by that subsection is not feasible. | ||
This subsection expires August 1, 2014. | ||
(d) Not later than October 1, 2013, each institution of | ||
higher education shall notify all enrolled students of the penalty | ||
for the offense under Section 42.06, Penal Code, of making a false | ||
alarm or report involving a public or private institution of higher | ||
education. This subsection expires December 31, 2013. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.06(b), Penal Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor | ||
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, in which event the offense is a state jail felony. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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