1-1     By:  Farrar (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)                 H.B. No. 998
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the prosecution of the offense of burglary.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 30.02(a), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-11     as follows:
1-12           (a)  A person commits an offense if, without the effective
1-13     consent of the owner, the person [he]:
1-14                 (1)  enters a habitation, or a building (or any portion
1-15     of a building) not then open to the public, with intent to commit a
1-16     felony, [or] theft, or an assault;  or
1-17                 (2)  remains concealed, with intent to commit a felony,
1-18     [or] theft, or an assault, in a building or habitation;  or
1-19                 (3)  enters a building or habitation and commits or
1-20     attempts to commit a felony, [or] theft, or an assault.
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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