Bill Text: TX SB1169 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to confinement as a condition of community supervision.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1169 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1169-Introduced.html

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85R9941 MAW-D
By: Uresti S.B. No. 1169

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to confinement as a condition of community supervision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 42A.302, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(c) A judge may impose a term of confinement as a condition
of community supervision under this article on placing the
defendant on supervision or at any time during the supervision
period. Notwithstanding the requirement of Subsection (a) that a
defendant be confined in a county jail, if the judge imposes as a
condition of community supervision in a felony case that the
defendant submit to a term of confinement at the beginning of the
period of community supervision, the judge may require the
defendant to submit to confinement in a county jail or the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice.
(d) The judge may impose terms of confinement as a condition
of community supervision in increments smaller than the maximum
terms provided by Subsection (a), except that the judge may not
impose terms of confinement that, if added together, exceed the
maximum terms provided by Subsection (a).
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, 2017.