By Hawley H.B. No. 1771
76R7461 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of trespassing.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 30.05(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (d) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor
1-7 unless:
1-8 (1) it is committed in a habitation or a shelter
1-9 center [or unless the actor carries a deadly weapon on or about his
1-10 person during the commission of the offense], in which event it is
1-11 a Class A misdemeanor; or
1-12 (2) the actor carries a deadly weapon on or about the
1-13 actor's person during the commission of the offense, in which event
1-14 it is a state jail felony.
1-15 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-16 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-17 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-18 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-19 before the effective date.
1-20 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-21 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-22 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
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.