Bill Text: TX SB518 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision and parole for certain repeat intoxication offenders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-02 - Filed [SB518 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB518-Introduced.html

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89R719 CJD-D
By: Middleton S.B. No. 518

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision and
parole for certain repeat intoxication offenders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 42A.054(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) Article 42A.053 does not apply to a defendant adjudged
guilty of an offense under:
(1) Section 15.03, Penal Code, if the offense is
punishable as a felony of the first degree;
(2) Section 19.02, Penal Code (Murder);
(3) Section 19.03, Penal Code (Capital Murder);
(4) Section 20.04, Penal Code (Aggravated
Kidnapping);
(5) Section 20A.02, Penal Code (Trafficking of
Persons);
(6) Section 20A.03, Penal Code (Continuous
Trafficking of Persons);
(7) Section 21.11, Penal Code (Indecency with a
Child);
(8) Section 22.011, Penal Code (Sexual Assault);
(9) Section 22.021, Penal Code (Aggravated Sexual
Assault);
(10) Section 22.04(a)(1), Penal Code (Injury to a
Child, Elderly Individual, or Disabled Individual), if:
(A) the offense is punishable as a felony of the
first degree; and
(B) the victim of the offense is a child;
(11) Section 29.03, Penal Code (Aggravated Robbery);
(12) Section 30.02, Penal Code (Burglary), if:
(A) the offense is punishable under Subsection
(d) of that section; and
(B) the actor committed the offense with the
intent to commit a felony under Section 21.02, 21.11, 22.011,
22.021, or 25.02, Penal Code;
(13) Section 43.04, Penal Code (Aggravated Promotion
of Prostitution);
(14) Section 43.05, Penal Code (Compelling
Prostitution);
(15) Section 43.25, Penal Code (Sexual Performance by
a Child);
(16) Section 43.26, Penal Code (Possession or
Promotion of Child Pornography);
(17) Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, for which
punishment is increased under:
(A) Section 481.140 of that code (Use of Child in
Commission of Offense); or
(B) Section 481.134(c), (d), (e), or (f) of that
code (Drug-free Zones) if it is shown that the defendant has been
previously convicted of an offense for which punishment was
increased under any of those subsections; [or]
(18) Section 481.1123, Health and Safety Code
(Manufacture or Delivery of Substance in Penalty Group 1-B), if the
offense is punishable under Subsection (d), (e), or (f) of that
section; or
(19) Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.061,
49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, if it is shown that the
defendant has been previously convicted two or more times of one of
those offenses or any combination of those offenses.
SECTION 2. Section 508.145(d), Government Code, is amended
by adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows:
(4) Notwithstanding Subdivision (2), an inmate who is
serving a sentence for an offense under Section 49.04, 49.045,
49.05, 49.06, 49.061, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, is not
eligible for release on parole if the inmate has been previously
convicted three or more times of one of those offenses or any
combination of those offenses.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An
offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed
by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.