D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the age at which a person may be punished by
death for
1-3 a capital offense.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 8.07(c), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (c) No person may, in any case, be punished by death for
an
1-8 offense committed while he was younger than 16 [17] years.
1-9 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-10 (b) This Act applies only to conduct that occurs on or after
1-11 the effective date of this Act. Conduct violating the penal
law of
1-12 this state occurs on or after the effective date of this
Act if any
1-13 element of the violation occurs on or after that date.
1-14 (c) Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
1-15 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct
1-16 occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create
an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three
several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby
suspended.
