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.