By Driver H.B. No. 319 76R1883 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the penalty for tampering with certain governmental 1-3 records. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.10, Penal Code, is amended by amending 1-6 Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) Except as provided in Subsection (d) or (i), an offense 1-8 under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's 1-9 intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is 1-10 a state jail felony. 1-11 (i) An offense under Subsection (a)(4) or (a)(6) is a 1-12 felony of the third degree if the governmental record is an 1-13 evidence of financial responsibility. In this subsection, 1-14 "evidence of financial responsibility" means a document or a 1-15 certificate described by Section 601.053, Transportation Code. 1-16 SECTION 2. Sections 601.087 and 601.196, Transportation 1-17 Code, are repealed. 1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The 1-19 changes in law made by this Act apply only to an offense committed 1-20 on or after September 1, 1999. An offense committed before 1-21 September 1, 1999, is covered by the law in effect when the offense 1-22 was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-23 purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed 1-24 before September 1, 1999, if any element of the offense occurred 2-1 before that date. 2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.