1-1     By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 185
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 23, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 23, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to certain permissible conditions of placement on deferred
 1-9     disposition for offenses involving the use of alcohol, a controlled
1-10     substance, or drugs.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (3), Article 45.54, Code of Criminal
1-13     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (3)  During the [said] deferral period, the justice may
1-15     require the defendant to:
1-16                 (a)  post a bond in the amount of the fine assessed to
1-17     secure payment of the fine;
1-18                 (b)  pay restitution to the victim of the offense in an
1-19     amount not to exceed the fine assessed;
1-20                 (c)  submit to professional counseling;
1-21                 (d)  comply with any other reasonable condition; [and]
1-22                 (e)  require the defendant to successfully complete a
1-23     Texas [Central] Education Agency approved driving safety course,
1-24     if:
1-25                       (1)  the offense alleged is an offense involving
1-26     the operation of a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor
1-27     vehicle, as defined in Section 522.003, Transportation Code
1-28     [Subdivision (6), Section 3, Texas Commercial Driver's License Act
1-29     (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes)]; and
1-30                       (2)  the defendant has not completed an approved
1-31     driving safety course within the preceding 12 months;
1-32                 (f)  submit to diagnostic testing for alcohol or a
1-33     controlled substance or drug;
1-34                 (g)  submit to a psychosocial assessment;
1-35                 (h)  participate in an alcohol or drug abuse treatment
1-36     or education program; and
1-37                 (i)  pay the costs of any diagnostic testing,
1-38     psychosocial assessment, or participation in a treatment or
1-39     education program either directly or through the court as court
1-40     costs.
1-41           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-42           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-43     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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