Bill Text: TX HB4417 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the administration of court-ordered programs regulated by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective immediately [HB4417 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4417-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of court-ordered programs regulated by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective immediately [HB4417 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4417-Introduced.html
By: Goldman | H.B. No. 4417 |
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relating to the administration of court-ordered programs regulated | ||
by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 106.115(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, as | ||
amended by Chapters 663 (H.B. 1560) and 948 (S.B. 1480), Acts of the | ||
87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is reenacted and amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) On the placement of a minor on deferred disposition for | ||
an offense under Section 49.02, Penal Code, or under Section | ||
106.02, 106.025, 106.04, 106.041, 106.05, or 106.07, the court | ||
shall require the defendant to successfully complete one of the | ||
following programs: | ||
(1) an alcohol awareness program under this section | ||
that is regulated under Chapter 171, Government Code; or | ||
(2) a drug education program under Section | ||
521.374(a)(1), Transportation Code, that is regulated under | ||
Chapter 171, Government Code[ |
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SECTION 2. Section 106.115(a-1) and (b-1), Alcoholic | ||
Beverage Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) On conviction of a minor of an offense under Section | ||
49.02, Penal Code, or Section 106.02, 106.025, 106.04, 106.041, | ||
106.05, or 106.07, the court, in addition to assessing a fine as | ||
provided by those sections, shall require a defendant who has not | ||
been previously convicted of an offense under one of those sections | ||
to successfully complete an alcohol awareness program or [ |
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education program[ |
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previously convicted once or more of an offense under one or more of | ||
those sections, the court may require the defendant to successfully | ||
complete an alcohol awareness program or [ |
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program[ |
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described by Subsection (a). | ||
(b-1) If the defendant resides in a county with a population | ||
of 75,000 or less and access to an alcohol awareness program is not | ||
readily available in the county, the court may allow the defendant | ||
to take an online alcohol awareness program approved by [ |
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Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation [ |
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hours of community service related to alcohol abuse prevention or | ||
treatment [ |
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awareness program. Community service ordered under this subsection | ||
is in addition to community service ordered under Section | ||
106.071(d). | ||
SECTION 3. The following laws are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 106.115(b-3), Alcoholic Beverage Code; | ||
and | ||
(2) Sections 521.375(a) and (b) and 521.376(a), | ||
Transportation Code. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |