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.
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