78R2581 KCR-D

By:  Goolsby                                                      H.B. No. 1332



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the imposition of consecutive sentencing for certain 
sex offenses.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Article 42.08(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The court [If a defendant is sentenced for an offense 
committed while the defendant was an inmate in the institutional 
division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the 
defendant has not completed the sentence he was serving at the time 
of the offense, the judge] shall order the sentence imposed in a 
second or [for the] subsequent conviction [offense] to commence 
immediately on completion of the sentence imposed in a preceding 
conviction when:
		(1)  the defendant committed the offense that is the 
subject of the second or subsequent conviction while the defendant 
was an inmate in the institutional division of the Texas Department 
of Criminal Justice completing the terms of the sentence imposed in 
a preceding conviction; or
		(2)  the offenses that are the subjects of the 
preceding conviction and the second or subsequent conviction are 
among the offenses listed in Section 12.42(c)(2)(A), Penal Code, or 
the offense described by Section 21.11, Penal Code [for the 
original offense].
	SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                      
	(b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to an 
offense committed on or after September 1, 2003.  An offense 
committed before September 1, 2003, is covered by the law in effect 
when the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in 
effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this subsection, an 
offense was committed before September 1, 2003, if any element of 
the offense was committed before that date.