By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 1349
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a payment to a children's crisis intervention and
 1-3     assessment center by a defendant made as a condition of community
 1-4     supervision.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
 1-7     Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-8           (g)  A judge who grants community supervision to a person may
 1-9     require the person to make one payment in an amount not to exceed
1-10     $50 to a children's crisis intervention and assessment center
1-11     established under Section 61.0385, Human Resources Code, if the
1-12     person is charged with or convicted of an offense under:
1-13                 (1)  Section 21.11, 22.011(a)(2), or 22.041, Penal
1-14     Code; or
1-15                 (2)  Section 22.04, Penal Code, if the victim of the
1-16     offense was a child 14 years of age or younger.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-18     to a person charged with or convicted of an offense committed on or
1-19     after the effective date of this Act.  A person charged with or
1-20     convicted of an offense committed before the effective date of this
1-21     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-22     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
1-23     purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
1-24     effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
 2-1     before the effective date.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.