1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 548 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1997; February 17, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 24, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 24, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Shapiro 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 548 on page 1, lines 17-18, by striking "felony of 1-8 the third degree" and inserting "state jail felony". 1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-10 AN ACT 1-11 relating to the punishment for the offense of unlawfully 1-12 transferring a weapon. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 46.06, Penal Code, is 1-15 amended to read as follows: 1-16 (d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, 1-17 except that an offense under Subsection (a)(2) is a felony of the 1-18 third degree if the weapon that is the subject of the offense is a 1-19 handgun. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-21 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-22 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 1-23 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-24 before the effective date. 1-25 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-26 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-27 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-28 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-29 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *