1-1 By: Garcia (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 926 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999; 1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the penalty for tampering with certain governmental 1-9 records. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 37.10(d), Penal Code, is amended to read 1-12 as follows: 1-13 (d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third 1-14 degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the 1-15 governmental record was a public school record or document or was a 1-16 license, certificate, permit, seal, title, letter of patent, or 1-17 similar document issued by government, by another state, or by the 1-18 United States, unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm 1-19 another, in which event the offense is a felony of the second 1-20 degree. 1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-22 to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-23 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 1-24 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 1-25 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For 1-26 purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the 1-27 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred 1-28 before that date. 1-29 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-30 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-35 * * * * *