By Hochberg                                     H.B. No. 2405

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain conditions of community supervision for a

 1-3     person convicted of an alcohol-related offense.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 13, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal

 1-6     Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:

 1-7           (o)  A judge who places on community supervision a defendant

 1-8     convicted of an offense under Chapter 49, Penal Code, may require

 1-9     as a condition of community supervision that the defendant make one

1-10     payment in an amount not to exceed $100 to a nonprofit organization

1-11     operating an educational program approved by the Texas Commission

1-12     on Alcohol and Drug Abuse or a public awareness program designed to

1-13     increase awareness of the problems associated with driving while

1-14     intoxicated.  An organization that receives money under this

1-15     subsection may use the money only to further the educational or

1-16     public awareness program operated by the organization.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.