H.B. No. 323
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the classification of federal offenses as delinquent
    1-3  conduct for purposes of state law.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.03(a), Family Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Delinquent conduct is:
    1-8              (1)  conduct, other than a traffic offense, that
    1-9  violates a penal law of this state or of the United States
   1-10  punishable by imprisonment or by confinement in jail;
   1-11              (2)  conduct that violates a reasonable and lawful
   1-12  order of a juvenile court entered under Section 54.04 or 54.05 of
   1-13  this code, except an order prohibiting the following conduct:
   1-14                    (A)  a violation of the penal laws of this state
   1-15  of the grade of misdemeanor that is punishable by fine only or a
   1-16  violation of the penal ordinances of any political subdivision of
   1-17  this state;
   1-18                    (B)  the unexcused voluntary absence of a child
   1-19  from school; or
   1-20                    (C)  the voluntary absence of a child from his
   1-21  home without the consent of his parent or guardian for a
   1-22  substantial length of time or without intent to return; or
   1-23              (3)  conduct that violates the laws of this state
   1-24  prohibiting driving while intoxicated or under the influence of
    2-1  intoxicating liquor (third or subsequent offense) or driving while
    2-2  under the influence of any narcotic drug or of any other drug to
    2-3  the degree that renders the child incapable of safely driving a
    2-4  vehicle (third or subsequent offense).
    2-5        SECTION 2.  (a)  The substantive change in law made by this
    2-6  Act relating to conduct that violates a penal law of the United
    2-7  States applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the
    2-8  effective date of this Act.  Conduct violating a penal law of the
    2-9  United States occurs on or after the effective date of this Act if
   2-10  every element of the violation occurs on or after that date.
   2-11        (b)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
   2-12  Act is covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct
   2-13  occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   2-14  purpose.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.