By: Harris S.B. No. 1816
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to terms of community supervision.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 157.212, Family Code is amended to read
1-4 as follows:
1-5 Sec. 157.212. Term of Community Supervision.
1-6 The community supervision period may not exceed [five] ten years.
1-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.