1-1 By: Reyna of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 2125 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999; 1-3 May 12, 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 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to creating the offense of stealing or receiving a stolen 1-9 check or sight order. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Penal Code, is amended 1-12 by adding Section 32.24 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 32.24. STEALING OR RECEIVING STOLEN CHECK OR SIMILAR 1-14 SIGHT ORDER. (a) A person commits an offense if the person steals 1-15 an unsigned check or similar sight order or, with knowledge that an 1-16 unsigned check or similar sight order has been stolen, receives the 1-17 check or sight order with intent to use it, to sell it, or to 1-18 transfer it to a person other than the person from whom the check 1-19 or sight order was stolen. 1-20 (b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-27 * * * * *