Bill Text: TX HB4629 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to jury instructions regarding parole eligibility for certain felony offenses that are not eligible for parole.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-22 - Left pending in committee [HB4629 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB4629-Introduced.html
| 89R11123 JRR-D | ||
| By: Moody | H.B. No. 4629 | |
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| relating to jury instructions regarding parole eligibility for | ||
| certain felony offenses that are not eligible for parole. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 4, Article 37.07, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (c-1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
| in the penalty phase of the trial of a felony case in which the | ||
| punishment is to be assessed by the jury for an offense described by | ||
| Section 508.145(a)(1), (2), (3), or (4), Government Code, the court | ||
| shall charge the jury in writing as follows: | ||
| "Under the law applicable in this case, if the defendant is | ||
| sentenced to a term of imprisonment, the length of time for which a | ||
| defendant is imprisoned may not be reduced by the award of parole." | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 4(c-1), Article 37.07, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, as added by this Act, applies to a defendant sentenced | ||
| for an offense on or after the effective date of this Act, | ||
| regardless of when the offense was committed. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
