1-1        By:  Shapiro, Moncrief                           S.B. No. 135
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed December 12, 1994; January 16, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  January 31, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; January 31, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Shapiro
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 135 as follows:
    1-8        In SECTION 1, proposed Section 25.07(g), Penal Code, between
    1-9  "a" and "felony", insert "state jail" and delete "of the third
   1-10  degree".  (introduced version, page 1, line 10; committee printing,
   1-11  page 1, line 22).
   1-12                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-13                                AN ACT
   1-14  relating to the punishment for the offense of violation of a
   1-15  protective order by a habitual offender under that statute.
   1-16        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-17        SECTION 1.  Subsection (g), Section 25.07, Penal Code, is
   1-18  amended to read as follows:
   1-19        (g)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor
   1-20  unless it is shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant
   1-21  has previously been convicted two or more times under this section,
   1-22  in which event the offense is a felony of the third degree.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-24  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-25  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-26  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-27  before the effective date.
   1-28        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-29  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-30  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-32        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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