By Garcia H.B. No. 926 76R4631 PEP-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(d), Penal Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third 1-8 degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the 1-9 governmental record was a public school record or document or was a 1-10 license, certificate, permit, seal, title, letter of patent, or 1-11 similar document issued by government, by another state, or by the 1-12 United States, unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm 1-13 another, in which event the offense is a felony of the second 1-14 degree. 1-15 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-16 to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-17 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 1-18 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 1-19 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For 1-20 purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the 1-21 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred 1-22 before that date. 1-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.