By:  Nelson, et al.                                    S.B. No. 461
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a payment to a family violence shelter center by a
 1-2     defendant made as a condition of community supervision.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
 1-5     Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-6           (g)  If a judge grants community supervision to a person
 1-7     convicted of an offense under Title 5, Penal Code, that the court
 1-8     determines involves family violence, the judge may require the
 1-9     person to make one payment in an amount not to exceed $100 to a
1-10     family violence shelter center that receives state or federal funds
1-11     and that serves the county in which the court is located.  In this
1-12     subsection, "family violence" has the meaning assigned by Section
1-13     71.004, Family Code, and "family violence shelter center" has the
1-14     meaning assigned by Section 51.002, Human Resources Code.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-16     to a person charged with or convicted of an offense committed on or
1-17     after the effective date of this Act.  A person charged with or
1-18     convicted of an offense committed before the effective date of this
1-19     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-20     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
1-21     purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
1-22     effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-23     before the effective date.
1-24           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.