By Williams H.B. No. 3404 76R861 KEL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the punishment for the offense of making a false 1-3 statement to obtain property or credit. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 32.32(c), Penal Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (c) An offense under this section is: 1-8 (1) a Class C misdemeanor if the value of the property 1-9 or the amount of credit is less than $50; 1-10 (2) a Class B misdemeanor if the value of the property 1-11 or the amount of credit is $50 or more but less than $500; 1-12 (3) a Class A misdemeanor if the value of the property 1-13 or the amount of credit is $500 or more but less than $1,500; 1-14 (4) a state jail felony if the value of the property 1-15 or the amount of credit is $1,500 or more but less than $20,000; 1-16 (5) a felony of the third degree if the value of the 1-17 property or the amount of credit is $20,000 or more but less than 1-18 $100,000; 1-19 (6) a felony of the second degree if the value of the 1-20 property or the amount of credit is $100,000 or more but less than 1-21 $200,000; or 1-22 (7) a felony of the first degree if the value of the 1-23 property or the amount of credit is $200,000 or more. 1-24 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 2-1 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 2-2 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 2-3 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 2-4 before that date. 2-5 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 2-6 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 2-7 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-8 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.