By:  Brimer                                            H.B. No. 137
       73R1592 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of unauthorized use of a boat, airplane, or
    1-3  motor-propelled vehicle.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 31.07(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A person commits an offense if he intentionally or
    1-8  knowingly operates another's boat, airplane, or motor-propelled
    1-9  vehicle, does not have <without> the effective consent of the
   1-10  owner, and knows he does not have, or is criminally negligent as to
   1-11  whether he has, the effective consent of the owner.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-13  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-14  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-15  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-16  before the effective date.
   1-17        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-18  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-19  and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.