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.