Amend HB 319 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 37.01(2), Penal Code, is amended to read
as follows:
            (2)  "Governmental record" means:
                  (A)  anything belonging to, received by, or kept
by government for information, including a court record;
                  (B)  anything required by law to be kept by
others for information of government; <or>
                  (C)  a license, certificate, permit, seal, title,
letter of patent, or similar document issued by government, by
another state, or by the United States; or
                  (D)  a standard proof of motor vehicle liability
insurance form described by Section 601.081, Transportation Code, a
certificate of an insurance company described by Section 601.083 of
that code, a document purporting to be such a form or certificate
that is not issued by an insurer authorized to write motor vehicle
liability insurance in this state, an electronic submission in a
form described by Section 502.153(i), Transportation Code, or an
evidence of financial responsibility described by Section 601.053
of that code.
      SECTION 2.  Sections 37.10(c) and (d), Penal Code, are
amended to read as follows:
      (c)(1)  Except as provided by Subdivision (2) and by <in>
Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A
misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm
another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.
            (2) <(d)>  An offense under this section is a felony of
the third degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that
the governmental record was a license, certificate, permit, seal,
title, letter of patent, or similar document issued by government,
by another state, or by the United States, unless the actor's
intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is
a felony of the second degree.
      (d)  An offense under this section, if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the governmental record is described by
Section 37.01(2)(D), is:
            (1)  a Class B misdemeanor if the offense is committed
under Subsection (a)(2) or Subsection (a)(5) and the defendant is
convicted of presenting or using the record;
            (2)  a felony of the third degree if the offense is
committed under:
                  (A)  Subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), or (6); or
                  (B)  Subsection (a)(2) or (5) and the defendant
is convicted of making the record; and
            (3)  a felony of the second degree, notwithstanding
Subdivisions (1) and (2), if the actor's intent in committing the
offense was to defraud or harm another.
      SECTION 3.  Section 521.451, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      Sec. 521.451.  GENERAL VIOLATION.  (a)  Except as provided by
Section 521.452, a person may not:
            (1)  display, cause or permit to be displayed, or have
in the person's possession a driver's license or certificate that
the person knows is fictitious or has been canceled, revoked,
suspended, or altered;
            (2)  lend the person's driver's license or certificate
to another person or knowingly permit another person to use the
person's driver's license or certificate;
            (3)  display or represent as the person's own a
driver's license or certificate not issued to the person;
            (4)  fail or refuse to surrender to the department on
demand a driver's license or certificate that has been canceled,
suspended, or revoked;
            (5)  possess more than one currently valid driver's
license or more than one currently valid certificate; or
            (6)  in an application for an original, renewal, or
duplicate driver's license or certificate:
                  (A)  provide a false name, false address, or a
counterfeit document; or
                  (B)  knowingly make a false statement, conceal a
material fact, or otherwise commit fraud.
      (b)  An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
      SECTION 4.  Sections 601.087 and 601.196, Transportation
Code, are repealed.
      SECTION 5.  (a)  The repeal by this Act of Section 601.196,
Transportation Code, does not apply to an offense committed under
that section before the effective date of the repeal.  For purposes
of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date
of the repeal if any element of the offense occurs before that
date.
      (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of the
repeal is covered by Section 601.196, Transportation Code, as it
existed on the date on which the offense was committed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
      SECTION 6.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act to
Chapter 37, 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 Chapter 37, 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.
      SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
      SECTION 8.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.