By Crabb                                              H.B. No. 1163
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the reduction or termination of a period of community
 1-3     supervision.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 20(a), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  At any time, [after the defendant has satisfactorily
 1-8     completed one-third of the original community supervision period or
 1-9     two years of community supervision, whichever is less,] the period
1-10     of community supervision may be reduced or terminated by the judge.
1-11     Upon the satisfactory fulfillment of the conditions of community
1-12     supervision, and the expiration of the period of community
1-13     supervision, the judge, by order duly entered, shall amend or
1-14     modify the original sentence imposed, if necessary, to conform to
1-15     the community supervision period and shall discharge the defendant.
1-16     If the judge discharges the defendant under this section, the judge
1-17     may set aside the verdict or permit the defendant to withdraw his
1-18     plea, and shall dismiss the accusation, complaint, information or
1-19     indictment against the defendant, who shall thereafter be released
1-20     from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense or
1-21     crime of which he has been convicted or to which he has pleaded
1-22     guilty, except that:    
1-23                 (1)  proof of the conviction or plea of guilty shall be
1-24     made known to the judge should the defendant again be convicted of
 2-1     any criminal offense; and
 2-2                 (2)  if the defendant is an applicant for a license or
 2-3     is a licensee under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, the Texas
 2-4     Department of Human Services may consider the fact that the
 2-5     defendant previously has received community supervision under this
 2-6     article in issuing, renewing, denying, or revoking a license under
 2-7     that chapter.
 2-8           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14     passage, and it is so enacted.