Bill Text: TX HB1710 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to notice provided to a court regarding a defendant confined in a state jail felony facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2024 [HB1710 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1710-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to notice provided to a court regarding a defendant confined in a state jail felony facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2024 [HB1710 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1710-Introduced.html
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By: Canales | H.B. No. 1710 |
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relating to notice provided to a court regarding a defendant | ||
confined in a state jail felony facility. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 42A.558, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) On request of the judge, the Texas Department of | ||
Criminal Justice shall, not later than the 60th day after the date | ||
the defendant is received into the custody of a state jail felony | ||
facility, notify the judge of the date on which the defendant will | ||
have served 75 days in the facility. The notice must be provided by | ||
e-mail or other electronic communication. | ||
(b-2) For purposes of Subsection (b-1), the judge may submit | ||
a single request to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with | ||
respect to all applicable defendants sentenced in the judge's | ||
court. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Article | ||
42A.558, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies only to a defendant | ||
who receives a sentence of confinement in a state jail felony | ||
facility on or after the effective date of this Act. A defendant | ||
who receives a sentence of confinement in a state jail felony | ||
facility before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law in effect at the time of sentencing, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |