By Reyna of Dallas H.B. No. 2125 76R6960 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to creating the offense of stealing or receiving a stolen 1-3 check or sight order. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Penal Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 32.24 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 32.24. STEALING OR RECEIVING STOLEN CHECK OR SIMILAR 1-8 SIGHT ORDER. (a) A person commits an offense if the person steals 1-9 an unsigned check or similar sight order or, with knowledge that an 1-10 unsigned check or similar sight order has been stolen, receives the 1-11 check or sight order with intent to use it, to sell it, or to 1-12 transfer it to a person other than the person from whom the check 1-13 or sight order was stolen. 1-14 (b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.