Bill Text: TX SB254 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the satisfaction of a condition of community supervision requiring performance of community service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-29 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB254 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB254-Introduced.html
| 83R4155 JRR-F | ||
| By: Deuell | S.B. No. 254 | |
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| relating to the satisfaction of a condition of community | ||
| supervision requiring performance of community service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 16(f), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (f) In lieu of requiring a defendant to work a specified | ||
| number of hours at a community service project or projects under | ||
| Subsection (a), the judge may order a defendant to make a specified | ||
| donation to: | ||
| (1) a nonprofit food bank or food pantry in the | ||
| community in which the defendant resides; or | ||
| (2) an organization selected by the defendant that is | ||
| tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, | ||
| and is approved by the judge. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
