By Nixon                                        S.B. No. 1151

      75R6720 JMC-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the prosecution of the offense of theft of service

 1-3     involving a third party holder in due course of a check or similar

 1-4     sight order.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 31.04, Penal Code, is amended by adding

 1-7     Subsection (g) to read as follows:

 1-8           (g)  Section 6.04(b) applies to conduct described under this

 1-9     section.

1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.