Bill Text: TX HB476 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-03 - Received from the House [HB476 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB476-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-03 - Received from the House [HB476 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB476-Introduced.html
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By: Jones of Harris | H.B. No. 476 |
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relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail | ||
pending trial. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 17.1511 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 17.1511. RELEASE OF DEFENDANT DETAINED LONGER THAN | ||
POTENTIAL PUNISHMENT. Notwithstanding any other law, a defendant | ||
may not be detained in jail pending trial for a cumulative period | ||
that exceeds the maximum term of confinement that may be imposed on | ||
conviction of the offense of which the defendant is accused. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a person who is arrested on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. A person arrested before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the person was arrested, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |