Bill Text: TX HB5164 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 5164

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined in jail or prison before sentencing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB5164 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB5164-Introduced.html



	By: Jones of Harris	H.B. No. 5164



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined
	in jail or prison before sentencing.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article 42.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by adding Section 2-a to read as follows:
	Sec. 2-a. In addition to relating the credit given to a
	defendant under Section 2, the judge of the court in which the
	defendant is convicted may give the defendant credit on the
	defendant's sentence for any time the defendant was confined in
	jail or prison for another case only, if that confinement occurred
	after or before the commission of the offense for which the
	defendant is convicted and before the date of the defendant's
	sentencing.
	Sec. 2-b. In addition to the credit given to a defendant
	under Section 2, the judge of the court in which the defendant is
	convicted may give the defendant combined credit on the defendant's
	sentence for any time the defendant was confined in jail or prison
	for another case regardless of which plea deal the defendant agrees
	to.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
	defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective
	date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed
	before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.