By Nixon H.B. No. 1534
74R6119 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 30.02(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under
1-7 this section is a:
1-8 (1) <state jail> felony of the third degree if
1-9 committed in a building other than a habitation; or
1-10 (2) felony of the second degree if committed in a
1-11 habitation.
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, 1995.
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.