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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