By Delisi H.B. No. 3435 76R1379 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the effect on a period of community supervision of the 1-3 issuance of a capias or warrant alleging a violation of a condition 1-4 of community supervision. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 21, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 1-7 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) The issuance of a capias or warrant for violation of a 1-9 condition of community supervision tolls the period of supervision 1-10 from the date of issuance until the date the hearing under 1-11 Subsection (b) begins. 1-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-13 to a capias or warrant issued on or after the effective date of 1-14 this Act. A capias or warrant issued before the effective date of 1-15 this Act is covered by the law in effect when the capias or warrant 1-16 was issued, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-17 purpose. 1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 4. 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.