By Farrar H.B. No. 998
76R4930 JMC-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.