Suspending limitations on conference committee
                           jurisdiction, S.B. 456
       By:  Hochberg                                          H.R. No. 844
       73R11892 DRH-D
                                  R E S O L U T I O N
    1-1        BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State
    1-2  of Texas, 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, That House Rule
    1-3  13, Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule
    1-4  13, Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
    1-5  resolve the differences on Senate Bill No. 456 to consider and take
    1-6  action on the following specific matter:
    1-7        House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the
    1-8  committee to add by amendment Section 12.47, Penal Code, to read as
    1-9  follows:
   1-10        Sec. 12.47.  PENALTY IF OFFENSE COMMITTED BECAUSE OF BIAS OR
   1-11  PREJUDICE.  If the court makes an affirmative finding under Article
   1-12  42.014, Code of Criminal Procedure, in the punishment phase of the
   1-13  trial of an offense other than a first degree felony, the
   1-14  punishment for the offense is increased to the punishment
   1-15  prescribed for the next highest category of offense.
   1-16        EXPLANATION.  This change is necessary to provide enhanced
   1-17  penalties for crimes other than first degree felonies motivated by
   1-18  bias or prejudice.