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Amend HB 3584 (Senate committee report) as follows:                          
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 31.16, Penal 
Code (page 1, between lines 39 and 40), following added Subsection 
(d), add the following:
	(e)  For the purposes of punishment, an offense under this 
section or an offense described by Section 31.03(e)(1) or (e)(2) is 
increased to the next highest category of offense if it is shown at 
the trial of the offense that the defendant, with the intent that a 
distraction from the commission of the offense be created, 
intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly caused an alarm to sound or 
otherwise become activated during the commission of the offense.
	(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly
	SECTION ____.  The change in law made by this Act in adding 
Section 31.16(e), Penal Code, applies only to an offense committed 
on or after the effective date of this Act.  An offense committed 
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 
effect at the time the offense was committed, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.  For the purposes of this 
section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this 
Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date.