1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the prosecution of the offense of burglary.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 30.02(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A person commits an offense if, without the effective
 1-7     consent of the owner, the person [he]:
 1-8                 (1)  enters a habitation, or a building (or any portion
 1-9     of a building) not then open to the public, with intent to commit a
1-10     felony, [or] theft, or an assault;  or
1-11                 (2)  remains concealed, with intent to commit a felony,
1-12     [or] theft, or an assault, in a building or habitation;  or
1-13                 (3)  enters a building or habitation and commits or
1-14     attempts to commit a felony, [or] theft, or an assault.
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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 998 was passed by the House on May 4,
         1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 998 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor