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.