H.B. No. 1103

	AN ACT
	relating to conditions of community supervision for persons
	convicted of certain criminal offenses involving animal cruelty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:
	(m)  If a judge grants community supervision to a person
	convicted of an offense under Section 42.09, 42.091, 42.092, or
	42.10, Penal Code, the judge may require the person to attend a
	responsible pet owner course sponsored by a municipal animal
	shelter, as defined by Section 823.001, Health and Safety Code,
	that:
	(1)  receives federal, state, county, or municipal
	funds; and
	(2)  serves the county in which the court is located.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 1103 was passed by the House on April
	26, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not
	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
	H.B. No. 1103 on May 26, 2011, and requested the appointment of a
	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
	on H.B. No. 1103 on May 29, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 132,
	Nays 12, 1 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 1103 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 24, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 25, Nays
	5; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
	1103 on May 29, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 27, Nays
	4.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor