Bill Text: TX HJR39 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail to certain persons charged with a violent or sexual offense after having been previously convicted of a violent or sexual offense.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HJR39 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HJR39-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Burkett, Carter, et al. | H.J.R. No. 39 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.J.R. No. 39: | |||
| By: Herrero | C.S.H.J.R. No. 39 | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail | ||
| to certain persons charged with a violent or sexual offense after | ||
| having been previously convicted of a violent or sexual offense. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11a, Article I, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, a | ||
| person taken into custody for committing a violent offense or | ||
| sexual offense may be denied release on bail pending trial if a | ||
| judge or magistrate, following a hearing, determines that the | ||
| person has been previously convicted of a violent offense or sexual | ||
| offense. | ||
| (c) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Violent offense" means: | ||
| (A) murder; | ||
| (B) aggravated assault, if the accused used or | ||
| exhibited a deadly weapon during the commission of the assault; | ||
| (C) aggravated kidnapping; or | ||
| (D) aggravated robbery. | ||
| (2) "Sexual offense" means: | ||
| (A) aggravated sexual assault; | ||
| (B) sexual assault; or | ||
| (C) indecency with a child. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the denial | ||
| of bail to certain persons charged with a violent or sexual offense | ||
| after having been previously convicted of a violent or sexual | ||
| offense." | ||
