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.