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.
Spectrum: 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. | ||
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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. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |