By Naishtat                                            H.B. No. 773
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the punishment for the offense of disorderly conduct
 1-3     involving the act of looking into the dwelling or guest room of
 1-4     another.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 42.01, Penal Code, is amended by amending
 1-7     Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as
 1-8     follows:
 1-9           (d)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5),
1-10     (6), (11), or (12) [this section] is a Class C misdemeanor.
1-11           (e)  An offense [unless committed] under Subsection (a)(9) or
1-12     (10) [(a)(10), in which event it] is a Class B misdemeanor.
1-13           (f)  An offense under Subsection (a)(7) or (8) is a Class B
1-14     misdemeanor, unless the person who commits the offense has
1-15     previously been convicted of an offense for which registration as a
1-16     sex offender is required under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal
1-17     Procedure, in which event the offense is a Class A misdemeanor.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.  The
1-19     change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
1-20     on or after the effective date of this Act.  An offense committed
1-21     before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
1-22     effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
1-23     continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this
1-24     section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this
 2-1     Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  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.