Bill Text: TX HB948 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the release on bail of certain persons charged with a violation of a condition of the person's release from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB948 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB948-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the release on bail of certain persons charged with a violation of a condition of the person's release from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB948 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB948-Introduced.html
88R2982 MCF-D | ||
By: Dutton | H.B. No. 948 |
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relating to the release on bail of certain persons charged with a | ||
violation of a condition of the person's release from the Texas | ||
Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 508.254(d) and (e), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A magistrate of the county in which the person is held in | ||
custody: | ||
(1) shall release the person on personal bond pending | ||
the hearing if: | ||
(A) the person is arrested or held in custody on a | ||
charge that the person violated a condition of release by | ||
committing a new offense; and | ||
(B) the person has been released on bond for that | ||
offense; and | ||
(2) may release the person on bond pending the hearing | ||
if: | ||
(A) [ |
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custody only on a charge that the person committed an | ||
administrative violation of release; | ||
(B) [ |
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Subsection (e), included notice on the warrant for the person's | ||
arrest that the person is eligible for release on bond; and | ||
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person is not a threat to public safety. | ||
(e) The division shall include a notice on the warrant for | ||
the person's arrest indicating that the person is eligible for | ||
release on bond under Subsection (d)(2) [ |
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determines that the person: | ||
(1) has not been previously convicted of: | ||
(A) an offense under Chapter 29, Penal Code; | ||
(B) an offense under Title 5, Penal Code, | ||
punishable as a felony; or | ||
(C) an offense involving family violence, as | ||
defined by Section 71.004, Family Code; | ||
(2) is not on intensive supervision or super-intensive | ||
supervision; | ||
(3) is not an absconder; and | ||
(4) is not a threat to public safety. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a person who is arrested on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. A person arrested before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the person was arrested, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |