By Ritter H.B. No. 3114 77R7160 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to conditions of community supervision imposed on certain 1-3 felons. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 12, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 1-6 Procedure, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding 1-7 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (a)(1) If a judge having jurisdiction of a misdemeanor case 1-9 requires as a condition of community supervision that the defendant 1-10 submit to a period of confinement in a county jail, the period of 1-11 confinement may not exceed 30 days. 1-12 (2) If a judge having jurisdiction of a felony case 1-13 requires as a condition of community supervision that the defendant 1-14 submit to a period of confinement in a county jail, the period of 1-15 confinement may not exceed 180 days. 1-16 (3) If a judge having jurisdiction of a felony case, 1-17 other than a state jail felony case, requires as a condition of 1-18 community supervision that the defendant submit to a period of 1-19 confinement in a state jail felony facility, the period of 1-20 confinement may not be less than 60 days and may not exceed one 1-21 year. 1-22 (d) A judge that requires a defendant to submit to 1-23 confinement under Subsection (a)(3) may require the defendant to 1-24 perform any service or participate in any program that the judge 2-1 could require of a defendant confined in a state jail felony 2-2 facility after conviction of a state jail felony. 2-3 SECTION 2. Section 507.002, Government Code, is amended to 2-4 read as follows: 2-5 Sec. 507.002. Eligible Defendants. The state jail division 2-6 may confine in a state jail felony facility authorized by this 2-7 subchapter defendants required by a judge to serve a term of 2-8 confinement in a state jail felony facility: 2-9 (1) following a grant of deferred adjudication for or 2-10 conviction of an offense punishable as a state jail felony; or 2-11 (2) as a condition of community supervision following 2-12 a grant of deferred adjudication for or conviction of an offense 2-13 punishable as a felony other than a state jail felony. 2-14 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to a 2-15 defendant on community supervision on or after the effective date 2-16 of this Act, regardless of the date on which the defendant was 2-17 placed on community supervision. 2-18 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.