Bill Text: TX HB5113 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the age at which a child on determinate sentence probation may be transferred to a district court and placed on community supervision.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-07 - Referred to s/c on Juvenile Justice by Speaker [HB5113 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB5113-Introduced.html
| 89R11185 CJD-F | ||
| By: Orr | H.B. No. 5113 | |
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| relating to the age at which a child on determinate sentence | ||
| probation may be transferred to a district court and placed on | ||
| community supervision. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 54.051(a), (d), and (e-2), Family Code, | ||
| are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) On motion of the state concerning a child who is placed | ||
| on probation under Section 54.04(q), the juvenile court: | ||
| (1) may, if the child is placed on probation for a | ||
| period, including any extension ordered under Section 54.05, that | ||
| will continue or has continued after the child's 18th birthday, | ||
| hold a hearing to determine whether to transfer the child to an | ||
| appropriate district court; or | ||
| (2) shall, if the child is placed on probation for a | ||
| period, including any extension ordered under Section 54.05, that | ||
| will continue after the child's 19th birthday, [ |
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| an appropriate district court or discharge the child from the | ||
| sentence of probation. | ||
| (d) If, after a hearing, the court determines to transfer | ||
| the child, the court shall transfer the child to an appropriate | ||
| district court after the child's 18th birthday but not later than on | ||
| the child's 19th birthday. | ||
| (e-2) If a person who is placed on community supervision | ||
| under this section violates a condition of that supervision or if | ||
| the person violated a condition of probation ordered under Section | ||
| 54.04(q) and that probation violation was not discovered by the | ||
| state before the date on which the person is transferred to an | ||
| appropriate district court under Subsection (d) [ |
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| community supervision or probation, as appropriate, in the same | ||
| manner as if the court had originally exercised jurisdiction over | ||
| the case. If the judge revokes community supervision, the judge may | ||
| reduce the prison sentence to any length without regard to the | ||
| minimum term imposed by Article 42A.755(a), Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 54.051, Family Code, as amended by this | ||
| Act, applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. Conduct that occurs before the effective date of | ||
| this Act is governed by the law in effect when the conduct occurred, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
| purposes of this section, conduct occurs before the effective date | ||
| of this Act if any element of the conduct occurs before that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
