Bill Text: TX HB787 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision prohibiting contact with certain persons.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB787 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB787-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision prohibiting contact with certain persons.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB787 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB787-Introduced.html
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By: Allen | 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: | ||
(A) engaging with state and local policy makers; | ||
or | ||
(B) participating in a lawful manner in rallies, | ||
marches, or other public displays of organized activity. | ||
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. |