1-1     By:  King of Parker, Green, Morrison                  H.B. No. 1321
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor:  Harris)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-4     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-5     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-6     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the authority of a magistrate to impose certain
1-10     reasonable conditions of bond and to revoke a bond for violation of
1-11     one of those conditions.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-14     amended by adding Article 17.40 to read as follows:
1-15           Art. 17.40.  CONDITIONS RELATED TO VICTIM OR COMMUNITY
1-16     SAFETY.  (a)  To secure a defendant's attendance at trial, a
1-17     magistrate may impose any reasonable condition of bond related to
1-18     the safety of a victim of the alleged offense or to the safety of
1-19     the community.
1-20           (b)  At a hearing limited to determining whether the
1-21     defendant violated a condition of bond imposed under Subsection
1-22     (a), the magistrate may revoke the defendant's bond only if the
1-23     magistrate finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the
1-24     violation occurred.
1-25           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-26     to a defendant who is released on bond in connection with an
1-27     offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
1-28     defendant who is released on bond in connection with an offense
1-29     committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
1-30     law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
1-31     continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this
1-32     section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
1-33     Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
1-34           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-35           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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