By Green H.B. No. 3242 76R8885 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the penalty for intoxication manslaughter. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 49.09, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-6 (g) If it is shown on the trial of an offense under Section 1-7 49.08 that the person has previously been convicted one or more 1-8 times of an offense relating to the operating of a motor vehicle 1-9 while intoxicated, an offense of operating an aircraft while 1-10 intoxicated, or an offense of operating a watercraft while 1-11 intoxicated, the offense is a felony of the first degree. 1-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-13 to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-14 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 1-15 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 1-16 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For 1-17 purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the 1-18 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred 1-19 before that date. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.