By Eiland                                              H.B. No. 741
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a
 1-3     vehicle.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 30.04(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (c)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony
 1-8     [Class A misdemeanor].
 1-9           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-10     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-11     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-12     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-13     before the effective date.
1-14           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-15     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-16     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.               
1-17           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.