Bill Text: TX HB2502 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a mandatory term of confinement for defendants placed on community supervision for the criminal offense of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a person.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2502 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2502-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2502 | ||
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| relating to a mandatory term of confinement for defendants placed | ||
| on community supervision for the criminal offense of leaving the | ||
| scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a | ||
| person. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.515 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 42A.515. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR LEAVING SCENE OF | ||
| MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT RESULTING IN DEATH OF PERSON. (a) A judge | ||
| granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an | ||
| offense punishable under Section 550.021(c)(1)(A), Transportation | ||
| Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision that | ||
| the defendant submit to a term of confinement of not less than 120 | ||
| days. | ||
| (b) If a sentence of confinement is imposed on the | ||
| revocation of community supervision, the term of confinement served | ||
| under Subsection (a) may not be credited toward completion of the | ||
| sentence imposed. | ||
| 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. 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2502 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2502 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
