Bill Text: TX HB91 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision for defendants convicted of certain criminal offenses involving animals.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Corrections [HB91 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB91-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 91 | |
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| relating to conditions of community supervision for defendants | ||
| convicted of certain criminal offenses involving animals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 42A.511(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) If a judge grants community supervision to a defendant | ||
| convicted of an offense under Section 21.09, 42.09, 42.091, 42.092, | ||
| 42.10, or 42.105, Penal Code, the judge may: | ||
| (1) require the defendant to relinquish custody of any | ||
| animals in the defendant's possession; | ||
| (2) prohibit the defendant from possessing or | ||
| exercising control over any animals or residing in a household | ||
| where animals are present; or | ||
| (3) require the defendant to participate in a | ||
| psychological counseling or other appropriate treatment program | ||
| for a period to be determined by the court. | ||
| 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. | ||
