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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the prosecution of an offense prohibiting the |
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exhibition, use, or threatened exhibition or use of a firearm in or |
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on school property or a school bus. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 37.125(a), Education Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(a) A person commits an offense if, in a manner intended to |
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cause alarm or personal injury to another person or to damage school |
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property, the person intentionally exhibits, uses,[ by exhibiting,
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using,] or threatens [threatening] to exhibit or use a firearm: |
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(1) in or on any property, including a parking lot, |
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parking garage, or other parking area, that is owned by a private or |
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public school; or |
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(2) on[, interferes with the normal use of a building
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or portion of a campus or of] a school bus being used to transport |
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children to or from school-sponsored activities of a private or |
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public school. |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an offense committed on |
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or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed |
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before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in |
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effect at the time the offense was committed, and the former law is |
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continued in effect for that purpose. For the purposes of this |
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section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this |
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Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007. |