Bill Text: TX HB1566 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1566 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to conditions of bond for defendants charged with certain offenses involving the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB1566 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1566-Introduced.html

	84R79 GCB-D

	By: White of Tyler	H.B. No. 1566



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to conditions of bond for defendants charged with certain
	offenses involving the operation of a motor vehicle while
	intoxicated.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by adding Article 17.442 to read as follows:
	Art. 17.442. CONDITION FOR DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH DRIVING
	WHILE INTOXICATED. (a) This article applies to a defendant
	charged with an offense under:
	(1) Section 49.04 or 49.045, Penal Code; or
	(2) Section 49.07 or 49.08, Penal Code, involving the
	operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
	(b) A magistrate may require as a condition of release on
	bond that a defendant to whom this article applies refrain from
	operating a motor vehicle in any public place pending the
	conclusion of criminal proceedings against the defendant for an
	offense described by Subsection (a).
	(c) The magistrate may revoke the bond and order the
	defendant arrested if the defendant violates the condition imposed
	under this article.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a defendant released on bond in connection with an offense
	committed on or after the effective date of this Act. A defendant
	released on bond in connection with 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. For purposes of this section, an offense
	was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element
	of the offense occurred before that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.