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House Bill 1610 |
House Author: Madden |
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Effective: 9-1-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Whitmire |
House Bill 1610 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to expand the group of offenders for whom the judge is given discretion to either suspend the imposition of a sentence and place a defendant on community supervision or order the sentence executed to include a defendant who was placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for certain state jail felonies under the Controlled Substances Act. The bill removes such judicial discretion for a defendant who committed certain state jail felonies under the Controlled Substances Act whose sentence has been reduced to a Class A misdemeanor and requires the judge to place the defendants on community supervision.