AEZ H.B. 2635 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE H.B. 2635 By: Place 4-9-97 Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND In 1993, the 73rd legislature passed legislation which allowed certain low-level drug and property offenders to be sentenced for up to two years imprisonment in a state jail facility. The same legislation also doubled the minimum amount of time certain violent offenders sentenced to the TDCJ-Institutional Division must serve before becoming eligible for parole. The 74th Legislature also made minor refinements to the laws governing the state jail system. PURPOSE HB 2635, as proposed, would amend state laws governing the operation of state jail facilities and the supervision of defendants convicted of state jail felonies. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 15(f)(2), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, Procedures Relating to State Jail Felony Community Supervision, to allow the court to retain jurisdiction over a defendant for the duration of their confinement in a state jail facility. SECTION 2. Amends Section 15(g), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, to require 90 day progress reports to to be filed with the judge only if the defendant is confined in a state jail facility as a condition of community supervision. SECTION 3. Amends Section 15(h)(1), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, to provide that defendants sentenced to a state jail facility do not receive good time credits, regardless of whether or not they are confined in a state jail facility after revocation of community supervision. SECTION 4. Amends Section 507.006, Government Code, Use of Facility for Transfer Inmates, to allow the Board of Criminal Justice to designate one or more state jail facilities to house inmates sentenced to a substance abuse felony punishment facility under Section 493.009, Government Code. SECTION 5. The changes in law made by Sections 1 and 3 of this Act apply only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 6. Emergency Clause.