Bill Text: TX HB787 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision prohibiting contact with certain persons.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB787 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB787-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 787 | ||
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| relating to conditions of community supervision prohibiting | ||
| contact with certain persons. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.3015 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Art. 42A.3015. PROHIBITING CONTACT WITH CERTAIN PERSONS. A | ||
| judge who places a defendant on community supervision may not, as a | ||
| condition of community supervision, prohibit the defendant from | ||
| contacting or interacting with a person who belongs to an | ||
| organization the membership of which includes persons who have | ||
| criminal histories, including persons currently on community | ||
| supervision or parole, and who engages in activities that the | ||
| director of the community supervision and corrections department | ||
| supervising the defendant determines, based on information | ||
| provided by the organization's designated representative or other | ||
| information, include: | ||
| (1) working with community members to address criminal | ||
| justice issues; | ||
| (2) offering training and programs to assist formerly | ||
| incarcerated persons; and | ||
| (3) advocating for criminal justice reform, including | ||
| by engaging with state and local policy makers. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| defendant placed on community supervision on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense for which the | ||
| defendant was placed on community supervision was committed before, | ||
| on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 787 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 15, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 12, 4 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 787 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
