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, report, or
1-10     assessment instrument required under Chapter 39, Education Code, or
1-11     was a license, certificate, permit, seal, title, letter of patent,
1-12     or similar document issued by government, by another state, or by
1-13     the United States, unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm
1-14     another, in which event the offense is a felony of the second
1-15     degree.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-17     to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-18     An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
1-19     covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and
1-20     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
1-21     purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
1-22     effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
1-23     before that date.
1-24           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 926 was passed by the House on May
         11, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 926 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record
         vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 926 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 21, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor