Bill Text: TX HB1577 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to changing the eligibility for mandatory supervision of an inmate serving a sentence for or previously convicted of certain assaults.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1577-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1577 |
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relating to changing the eligibility for mandatory supervision of | ||
an inmate serving a sentence for or previously convicted of certain | ||
assaults. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 508.149(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) An inmate may not be released to mandatory supervision | ||
if the inmate is serving a sentence for or has been previously | ||
convicted of: | ||
(1) an offense for which the judgment contains an | ||
affirmative finding under Article 42A.054(c) or (d), Code of | ||
Criminal Procedure; | ||
(2) a first degree felony or a second degree felony | ||
under Section 19.02, Penal Code; | ||
(3) a capital felony under Section 19.03, Penal Code; | ||
(4) a first degree felony or a second degree felony | ||
under Section 20.04, Penal Code; | ||
(5) an offense under Section 21.11, Penal Code; | ||
(6) a felony under Section 22.011, Penal Code; | ||
(7) a first degree felony or a second degree felony | ||
under Section 22.02, Penal Code; | ||
(8) a first degree felony under Section 22.021, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(9) a first degree felony under Section 22.04, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(10) a first degree felony under Section 28.02, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(11) a second degree felony under Section 29.02, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(12) a first degree felony under Section 29.03, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(13) a first degree felony under Section 30.02, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(14) a felony for which the punishment is increased | ||
under Section 481.134 or [ |
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(15) an offense under Section 43.25, Penal Code; | ||
(16) an offense under Section 21.02, Penal Code; | ||
(17) a first degree felony under Section 15.03, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(18) an offense under Section 43.05, Penal Code; | ||
(19) an offense under Section 20A.02, Penal Code; | ||
(20) an offense under Section 20A.03, Penal Code; | ||
(21) a first degree felony under Section 71.02 or | ||
71.023, Penal Code; [ |
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(22) an offense under Section 481.1123, Health and | ||
Safety Code, punished under Subsection (d), (e), or (f) of that | ||
section; | ||
(23) a second degree felony under Section 22.01, Penal | ||
Code; or | ||
(24) an offense under Section 22.01, Penal Code, | ||
punished under Subsection (b)(2), (7), or (8) of that section. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act 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 on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1577 was passed by the House on May | ||
11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 119, Nays 23, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1577 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |