By King of Parker                                     H.B. No. 1321
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of a magistrate to impose certain
 1-3     reasonable conditions of bond.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended by adding Article 17.40 to read as follows:
 1-7           Art. 17.40.  CONDITIONS RELATED TO VICTIM OR COMMUNITY
 1-8     SAFETY.  To secure a defendant's attendance at trial, a magistrate
 1-9     who finds that the defendant is likely to commit an offense during
1-10     the defendant's release on bond pending trial may impose any
1-11     reasonable condition of bond related to the safety of a victim of
1-12     the alleged offense or to the safety of the community.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-14     to a defendant who is released on bond in connection with an
1-15     offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
1-16     defendant who is released on bond in connection with an offense
1-17     committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
1-18     law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
1-19     continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this
1-20     section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
1-21     Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
1-22           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.