Amend CSHB 806 by adding appropriately numbered SECTIONS to
read as follows and by renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 19.03(a), Penal Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A person commits an offense if he commits murder as
defined under Section 19.02(b)(1) and:
(1) the person murders a peace officer or fireman who
is acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and who the
person knows is a peace officer or fireman;
(2) the person intentionally commits the murder in the
course of committing or attempting to commit kidnapping, burglary,
robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, or obstruction or
retaliation;
(3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or
the promise of remuneration or employs another to commit the murder
for remuneration or the promise of remuneration;
(4) the person commits the murder while escaping or
attempting to escape from a penal institution;
(5) the person, while incarcerated in a penal
institution, murders another:
(A) who is employed in the operation of the
penal institution; or
(B) with the intent to establish, maintain, or
participate in a combination or in the profits of a combination;
(6) the person:
(A) while incarcerated for an offense under this
section or Section 19.02, murders another; or
(B) while serving a sentence of life
imprisonment or a term of 99 years for an offense under Section
20.04, 22.021, or 29.03, murders another;
(7) the person murders more than one person:
(A) during the same criminal transaction; or
(B) during different criminal transactions but
the murders are committed pursuant to the same scheme or course of
conduct; <or>
(8) the person murders an individual under six years
of age; or
(9) the person commits the murder by use of a firearm
as defined by Section 46.01, fired from a motor vehicle at an
individual not inside the motor vehicle, regardless of whether the
motor vehicle is being operated at the time the firearm is fired.
SECTION____. (a) The change in law made by Section _ of
this Act to Section 19.03, Penal Code, applies only to an offense
committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes
of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date
of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before the
effective date.
(b) An offense under Section 19.03, Penal Code, committed
before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.