By:  Horn                                              H.B. No. 427
       73R2811 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the punishment of attempted capital murder.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 15.01(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        (d)  Except for an attempt of an offense that is a capital
    1-7  felony, an <An> offense under this section is one category lower
    1-8  than the offense attempted, and if the offense attempted is a
    1-9  felony of the third degree, the offense is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-10  If the offense attempted is a capital felony, the offense under
   1-11  this section is a capital felony.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-13  only to the punishment for an offense committed on or after the
   1-14  effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
   1-15  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-16  element of the offense occurs 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.