Bill Text: TX HB2989 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the rights of certain defendants who successfully complete a term of community supervision.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB2989 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2989-Introduced.html
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| By: Canales | H.B. No. 2989 | |
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| relating to the rights of certain defendants who successfully | ||
| complete a term of community supervision. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 20, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) If the judge sets aside the verdict or permits the | ||
| defendant to withdraw the defendant's plea and dismisses the | ||
| accusation, complaint, information, or indictment against the | ||
| defendant under Subsection (a): | ||
| (1) a licensing authority may not deny an application | ||
| for an occupational license, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew an | ||
| occupational license, or take any other disciplinary action against | ||
| the defendant based on the offense of which the defendant has been | ||
| convicted or to which the defendant has pleaded guilty; and | ||
| (2) the defendant may not be denied a benefit or | ||
| subject to any civil disability or disqualification based on the | ||
| offense of which the defendant has been convicted or to which the | ||
| defendant has pleaded guilty. | ||
| (d) Subsection (c) supersedes any conflicting state statute | ||
| enacted before September 1, 2013, that purports to deny a benefit or | ||
| impose a disability or disqualification. | ||
| (e) Subsection (c) supersedes any conflicting state statute | ||
| enacted on or after September 1, 2013, unless the statute expressly | ||
| provides otherwise. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
