Bill Text: TX HB1566 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to conditions of bond for defendants charged with certain offenses involving the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB1566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1566-Introduced.html
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| By: White of Tyler | H.B. No. 1566 | |
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| 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. | ||
