Bill Text: TX HB583 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to donations to certain local veteran's charities ordered as a condition of community supervision.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB583 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB583-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Larson (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) H.B. No. 583
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015;
May 15, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 25, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
May 25, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 583 By: Hinojosa

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.
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