78S10224 KCR-D

By:  Truitt                                                       H.B. No. 100



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle.          
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 30.04(d), Penal Code, is amended to read 
as follows:     
	(d)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, 
except that the offense is a state jail felony if it is shown on the 
trial of the offense that the defendant has previously been 
convicted of an offense under this section or Chapter 31 [unless the 
vehicle or part of the vehicle broken into or entered is a rail car, 
in which event the offense is a state jail felony].
	SECTION 2.  (a) This Act takes effect November 1, 2003.                        
	(b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to an 
offense committed on or after November 1, 2003. An offense 
committed before November 1, 2003, is covered by the law in effect 
when the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in 
effect for that purpose.  For the purposes of this subsection, an 
offense was committed before November 1, 2003, if any element of the 
offense occurred before that date.