By Shapiro                                              S.B. No. 31
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the ability of certain sex offenders to request early
 1-3     termination of community supervision.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 20(b), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  This section does not apply to a defendant convicted of
 1-8     an offense under Sections 49.04-49.08, Penal Code, a defendant
 1-9     convicted of an offense for which on conviction registration as a
1-10     sex offender is required under Chapter 62, or a defendant convicted
1-11     of an offense punishable as a state jail felony.
1-12           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-13     only to a defendant convicted of an offense on or after the
1-14     effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense for
1-15     which the defendant is convicted is committed before, on, or after
1-16     the effective date of this Act.
1-17           (b)  A defendant convicted of an offense before the effective
1-18     date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the defendant
1-19     was convicted, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-20     purpose.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.