Bill Text: TX SB144 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to allowing a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision to be eligible for a pardon.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - See remarks for effective date [SB144 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB144-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to allowing a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision to be eligible for a pardon.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - See remarks for effective date [SB144 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB144-Comm_Sub.html
By: West | S.B. No. 144 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 8, 2010; January 31, 2011, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
March 21, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 0; March 21, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to allowing a person who successfully completes a term of | ||
deferred adjudication community supervision to be eligible for a | ||
pardon. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 48.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Art. 48.01. GOVERNOR MAY PARDON. In all criminal cases, | ||
except treason and impeachment, the Governor shall have power, | ||
after conviction or successful completion of a term of deferred | ||
adjudication community supervision, on the written signed | ||
recommendation and advice of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, or a | ||
majority thereof, to grant reprieves and commutations of | ||
punishments and pardons; and upon the written recommendation and | ||
advice of a majority of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, he shall | ||
have the power to remit fines and forfeitures. The Governor shall | ||
have the power to grant one reprieve in any capital case for a | ||
period not to exceed 30 days; and he shall have power to revoke | ||
conditional pardons. With the advice and consent of the | ||
Legislature, the Governor may grant reprieves, commutations of | ||
punishment and pardons in cases of treason. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2012, but only | ||
if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 82nd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2011, authorizing the governor to grant a pardon | ||
to a person who successfully completes a term of deferred | ||
adjudication community supervision is approved by the voters. If | ||
that amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no | ||
effect. | ||
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