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Senate Bill 1474 |
Senate Author: Garcia et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-15 |
House Sponsor: Farias |
Senate Bill 1474 amends the Government Code to include among the conditions of participation by a veteran in a veterans treatment court program that the court find that the person was a victim of military sexual trauma, to require the court to find that an injury, illness, disorder, or trauma occurred during or resulted from the person's military service without regard to whether it resulted from service in a combat zone or similar hazardous duty area, and to add as an alternative condition of participation that the court find that participation in a program is likely to achieve the program's objective of ensuring public safety through rehabilitation of the veteran.
Among other provisions, the bill authorizes a program to transfer responsibility for supervising a defendant's participation to another program located in the county in which the defendant works or resides and provides for the placement of defendants charged with an offense in a county without a program.