1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1827 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 30, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 30, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1827 By: Shapleigh 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to characteristics of a defendant that shall not be used 1-11 by a judge to deny community supervision. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 1-14 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-15 (g) A judge shall not deny community supervision to a 1-16 defendant based solely on the defendant's inability to speak, read, 1-17 write, hear, or understand English. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-24 * * * * *