By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 185
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to certain permissible conditions of placement on deferred
 1-2     disposition for offenses involving the use of alcohol, a controlled
 1-3     substance, or drugs.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (3), Article 45.54, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (3)  During the [said] deferral period, the justice may
 1-8     require the defendant to:
 1-9                 (a)  post a bond in the amount of the fine assessed to
1-10     secure payment of the fine;
1-11                 (b)  pay restitution to the victim of the offense in an
1-12     amount not to exceed the fine assessed;
1-13                 (c)  submit to professional counseling;
1-14                 (d)  comply with any other reasonable condition; [and]
1-15                 (e)  require the defendant to successfully complete a
1-16     Texas [Central] Education Agency approved driving safety course,
1-17     if:
1-18                       (1)  the offense alleged is an offense involving
1-19     the operation of a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor
1-20     vehicle, as defined in Section 522.003, Transportation Code
1-21     [Subdivision (6), Section 3, Texas Commercial Driver's License Act
1-22     (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes)]; and
1-23                       (2)  the defendant has not completed an approved
1-24     driving safety course within the preceding 12 months;
 2-1                 (f)  submit to diagnostic testing for alcohol or a
 2-2     controlled substance or drug;
 2-3                 (g)  submit to a psychosocial assessment;
 2-4                 (h)  participate in an alcohol or drug abuse treatment
 2-5     or education program; and
 2-6                 (i)  pay the costs of any diagnostic testing,
 2-7     psychosocial assessment, or participation in a treatment or
 2-8     education program either directly or through the court as court
 2-9     costs.
2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.