Bill Text: TX HB3336 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a judge's findings when sentencing persons convicted of certain drug possession offenses to a term of confinement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3336 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3336-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Hughes | H.B. No. 3336 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3336: | |||
| By: Herrero | C.S.H.B. No. 3336 | ||
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| relating to a judge's findings when sentencing persons convicted of | ||
| certain drug possession offenses to a term of confinement. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 42.024 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 42.024. SENTENCING FOR DRUG POSSESSION OFFENSES. (a) | ||
| A judge who sentences a defendant convicted of an offense under | ||
| Section 481.115, 481.1151, 481.116, 481.1161, 481.117, 481.118, or | ||
| 481.121, Health and Safety Code, to a term of confinement and orders | ||
| the sentence to be immediately executed shall state on the record | ||
| and in writing the judge's reasons for requiring confinement | ||
| instead of placing the defendant on community supervision or | ||
| requiring the defendant to submit to a treatment program or other | ||
| alternative to confinement and place a copy of the written | ||
| statement in the papers in the case. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply to a defendant who has | ||
| previously been convicted of a felony offense involving violence or | ||
| an offense for which the defendant is required to register as a sex | ||
| offender under Chapter 62. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 72, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 72.031 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 72.031. COLLECTION OF DATA REGARDING SENTENCING FOR | ||
| DRUG POSSESSION OFFENSES. (a) The office annually shall collect | ||
| data relating to sentencing of persons who are convicted of | ||
| offenses involving the possession of a controlled substance or | ||
| marihuana based on copies of written statements made by sentencing | ||
| judges under Article 42.024, Code of Criminal Procedure, and placed | ||
| in the papers in the case. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1 of each year, the office shall | ||
| publish on its Internet website the data collected under Subsection | ||
| (a) covering the previous state fiscal year. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Office of Court Administration of the Texas | ||
| Judicial System is not required to publish a report under Section | ||
| 72.031, Government Code, as added by this Act, before December 1, | ||
| 2014. | ||
| SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| person convicted of an offense involving the possession of a | ||
| controlled substance or marihuana who is sentenced on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is | ||
| committed before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
