1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 461 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1999; February 15, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 1, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 1, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 461 By: Nelson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to a payment to a family violence shelter center by a 1-11 defendant made as a condition of community supervision. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 1-14 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-15 (g) If a judge grants community supervision to a person 1-16 convicted of an offense under Title 5, Penal Code, that the court 1-17 determines involves family violence, the judge may require the 1-18 person to make one payment in an amount not to exceed $100 to a 1-19 family violence shelter center that receives state or federal funds 1-20 and that serves the county in which the court is located. In this 1-21 subsection, "family violence" has the meaning assigned by Section 1-22 71.004, Family Code, and "family violence shelter center" has the 1-23 meaning assigned by Section 51.002, Human Resources Code. 1-24 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-25 to a person charged with or convicted of an offense committed on or 1-26 after the effective date of this Act. A person charged with or 1-27 convicted of an offense committed before the effective date of this 1-28 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-29 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For 1-30 purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the 1-31 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-32 before the effective date. 1-33 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-34 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-39 * * * * *