By Danburg H.B. No. 337 76R2432 KEL-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the repeal of the offense of homosexual conduct. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.06, Penal Code, is repealed. 1-5 SECTION 2. An offense under Section 21.06, Penal Code, may 1-6 not be prosecuted after the effective date of this Act. If on the 1-7 effective date of this Act a criminal action is pending for an 1-8 offense under Section 21.06, the action is dismissed on that date. 1-9 However, a final conviction for an offense under Section 21.06 that 1-10 exists on the effective date of this Act is unaffected by this Act. 1-11 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-12 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.