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.
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