Bill Text: TX HB583 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to donations to certain local veteran's charities ordered as a condition of community supervision.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB583 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB583-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 583 | ||
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| relating to donations to certain local veteran's charities ordered | ||
| as a condition of community supervision. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 16, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by amending Subsection (f) and adding | ||
| Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) In lieu of requiring a defendant to work a specified | ||
| number of hours at a community service project or projects under | ||
| Subsection (a), the judge may order a defendant to make a specified | ||
| donation to: | ||
| (1) a nonprofit food bank or food pantry in the | ||
| community in which the defendant resides; | ||
| (2) a charitable organization engaged primarily in | ||
| performing charitable functions for veterans in the community in | ||
| which the defendant resides; or | ||
| (3) in a county with a population of less than 50,000, | ||
| another nonprofit organization that: | ||
| (A) is exempt from taxation under Section 501(a) | ||
| of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 because it is listed in Section | ||
| 501(c)(3) of that code; and | ||
| (B) provides services or assistance to needy | ||
| individuals and families in the community in which the defendant | ||
| resides. | ||
| (h) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Charitable organization" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 2252.906, Government Code. | ||
| (2) "Veteran" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 434.022, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 583 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 583 on May 29, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 2 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 583 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
