By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 749
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to requirements that may be imposed by certain courts as a
    1-2  condition of probation.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 17, Article 42.12, Code
    1-5  of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  If the court, including a municipal court that is not a
    1-7  court of record, places a defendant on probation, the court may
    1-8  require, as a condition of the probation, that the defendant work a
    1-9  specified number of hours at a community service project or
   1-10  projects for an organization or organizations named in the court's
   1-11  order <,> and may also require that the defendant submit to testing
   1-12  for controlled substances.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.