Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 1113	House Author:  Raymond et al.
Effective:  9-1-11	Senate Sponsor:  Zaffirini

House Bill 1113 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to authorize a judge, under certain circumstances, to order the sentencing hearing of a defendant convicted of an offense involving possession, manufacture, or delivery of a controlled substance to be held at a secondary school and to receive at a secondary school a plea of guilty or nolo contendere from such a defendant and place the defendant on deferred adjudication community supervision. The bill authorizes a judge to allow a defendant placed on community supervision for a controlled substance offense to perform community outreach in lieu of hours of community service, provides a description of the outreach, and sets out restrictions relating to outreach participation.