By: Leach, Rodriguez	H.B. No. 3598

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and
	changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory
	supervision, and parole for persons convicted of intoxication
	manslaughter.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  This Act may be cited as Lauren and CJ's Law.
	SECTION 2.  Section 49.08(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	(b)  Except as provided by Section 49.09, an offense under
	this section is a felony of the second degree with a minimum term of
	imprisonment of five years.
	SECTION 3.  Article 42A.401, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to
	read as follows:
	(a)  A judge granting community supervision to a defendant
	convicted of an offense under Chapter 49, Penal Code, shall require
	as a condition of community supervision that the defendant submit
	to:
	(1)  not less than 72 hours of continuous confinement
	in county jail if the defendant was punished under Section
	49.09(a), Penal Code;
	(2)  not less than five days of confinement in county
	jail if the defendant was punished under Section 49.09(a), Penal
	Code, and was subject to Section 49.09(h), Penal Code;
	(3)  not less than 10 days of confinement in county jail
	if the defendant was punished under Section 49.09(b), Penal Code;
	(4)  not less than 30 days of confinement in county jail
	if the defendant was convicted of an offense under Section 49.07,
	Penal Code; or
	(5)  subject to Subsection (c), a term of imprisonment
	in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [confinement] of not
	less than five years [120 days] if the defendant was convicted of an
	offense under Section 49.08, Penal Code.
	(c)  A judge granting community supervision to a defendant
	who was convicted of an offense under Section 49.08, Penal Code, may
	reduce the minimum term of imprisonment required under Subsection
	(a)(5) to a minimum term of imprisonment of not less than two years
	if the judge:
	(1)  makes a finding that the best interest of the
	community would be served and the public would not be harmed by the
	reduction; and
	(2)  enters that finding on the record.
	SECTION 4.  Section 508.145, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
	(e-1)  An inmate serving a sentence under Section 49.08,
	Penal Code, is not eligible for release on parole until the actual
	calendar time served, without consideration of good conduct time,
	equals five years.
	SECTION 5.  Section 508.147, Government Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
	follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (a-1) and Section
	508.149, a parole panel shall order the release of an inmate who is
	not on parole to mandatory supervision when the actual calendar
	time the inmate has served plus any accrued good conduct time equals
	the term to which the inmate was sentenced.
	(a-1)  An inmate serving a sentence under Section 49.08,
	Penal Code, may not be released to mandatory supervision unless:
	(1)  the inmate's actual calendar time served, without
	consideration of good conduct time, equals at least five years; and
	(2)  the inmate is otherwise eligible for release under
	Subsection (a).
	SECTION 6.  The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.