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Senate Bill 839 |
Senate Author: Hinojosa |
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Effective: 9-1-09 |
House Sponsor: McReynolds |
Senate Bill 839 amends the Penal Code to require a juvenile whose case is transferred by a juvenile court to a criminal court and who is found guilty of a capital felony in a case in which the state does not seek the death penalty to be punished by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life and to require the prospective jurors in that capital felony trial to be informed that a sentence of life imprisonment is mandatory on conviction of the juvenile of the capital felony. The bill amends the Government Code to provide that such convicted inmate is not eligible for release on parole until the actual calendar time the inmate has served, without consideration of good conduct time, equals 40 calendar years.