By Danburg                                             H.B. No. 337
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                                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  Section 21.06, Penal Code, is repealed.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.