By Nixon H.B. No. 910
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the penalty for a burglary committed in a building
1-3 other than a habitation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 30.02(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under
1-8 this section is a:
1-9 (1) [state jail] felony of the third degree if
1-10 committed in a building other than a habitation; or
1-11 (2) felony of the second degree if committed in a
1-12 habitation.
1-13 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-14 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-15 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-16 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-17 before that date.
1-18 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-19 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-20 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.