73R1160 GWK-F
          By De La Garza, et al.                                  H.B. No. 20
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm by a
    1-3  felon.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 46.05(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A person commits an offense if the person possesses a
    1-8  firearm away from the premises where he lives and <who> has been
    1-9  convicted of:
   1-10              (1)  a felony involving an act of violence or
   1-11  threatened violence to a person or property;
   1-12              (2)  a felony under Chapter 481, Health and Safety
   1-13  Code, involving manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to
   1-14  manufacture or deliver a controlled substance; or
   1-15              (3)  an aggravated felony under Chapter 481, Health and
   1-16  Safety Code, involving possession of a controlled substance
   1-17  <commits an offense if he possesses a firearm away from the
   1-18  premises where he lives>.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in the law made by this Act
   1-20  applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective date
   1-21  of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed
   1-22  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
   1-23  occurs before the effective date.
   1-24        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
    2-1  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
    2-2  and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.