88S40176 MZM-D     By: Raymond H.B. No. 93       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.