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. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 461 passed the Senate on March 9, 1999, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 461 passed the House on April 16, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor