By Uresti                                             H.B. No. 2484
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a
 1-3     vehicle.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 30.04(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (c)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor,
 1-8     unless the actor steals property from the vehicle, in which event
 1-9     the punishment for the offense is:
1-10                 (1)  a state jail felony if the value of the property
1-11     stolen is less than $1,500;
1-12                 (2)  a felony of the third degree if the value of the
1-13     property stolen is $1,500 or more but less than $20,000;
1-14                 (3)  a felony of the second degree if the value of the
1-15     property stolen is $20,000 or more but less than $100,000; or
1-16                 (4)  a felony of the first degree if the value of the
1-17     property stolen is $100,000 or more.
1-18           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-19     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-20     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-21     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-22     before the effective date.
1-23           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-24     Act is covered by  the law in effect when the offense was
 2-1     committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
 2-2     purpose.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.