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.
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