1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 1453 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2001; March 13, 2001, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 May 4, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-5 Nays 1; May 4, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the eligibility of certain defendants convicted of 1-9 felonies for release on bail pending appeal. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Article 44.04, Code of Criminal 1-12 Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-13 (b) The defendant may not be released on bail pending the 1-14 appeal from any felony conviction where the punishment equals or 1-15 exceeds 10 years confinement or where the defendant has been 1-16 convicted of an offense listed under Section 3g(a)(1), Article 1-17 42.12, or an offense under Section 22.04, Penal Code, but shall 1-18 immediately be placed in custody and the bail discharged. 1-19 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-20 to a request for bail pending appeal that is made by a defendant on 1-21 or after the effective date of this Act. A request for bail 1-22 pending appeal that is made by a defendant before the effective 1-23 date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the request 1-24 was made, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-25 purpose. 1-26 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-27 * * * * *