1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 1218 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 10, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 10, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1218 By: Patterson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to venue in the prosecution of the offense of issuing a 1-11 bad check. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Chapter 13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-14 amended by adding Article 13.26 to read as follows: 1-15 Art. 13.26. ISSUANCE OF BAD CHECK. Notwithstanding Articles 1-16 4.12 and 45.22, an offense under Section 32.41, Penal Code, may be 1-17 tried in any justice court precinct in the county in which the 1-18 offense was committed or, if the victim of the alleged offense 1-19 receives by mail or similar delivery service the check or similar 1-20 sight order issued or passed by the defendant, in any justice court 1-21 precinct in the county in which the victim: 1-22 (1) receives the check or similar sight order; or 1-23 (2) is located, if the victim is a business entity and 1-24 receives the check or similar sight order in a county other than 1-25 the county in which the victim is located. 1-26 SECTION 2. (a) Article 13.26, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1-27 as added by this Act, applies only to the venue for the trial of an 1-28 offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For 1-29 purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the 1-30 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-31 before that date. 1-32 (b) Venue for the trial of an offense committed before the 1-33 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 1-34 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect 1-35 for that purpose. 1-36 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-37 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-42 * * * * *