1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 1816
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 19, 1999, rereferred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-5 April 28, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-6 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 28, 1999,
1-7 sent to printer.)
1-8 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1816 By: Harris
1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-10 AN ACT
1-11 relating to terms of community supervision for violation of an
1-12 order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Section 157.212, Family Code, is amended to read
1-15 as follows:
1-16 Sec. 157.212. TERM OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. The community
1-17 supervision period may not exceed 10 [five] years.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19 applies only to an order providing for community supervision that
1-20 is rendered on or after that date. An order that is rendered
1-21 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
1-22 effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is
1-23 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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