78R8794 EMT-D

By:  Turner                                                       H.B. No. 2746



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to permissible conditions of community supervision for 
certain defendants convicted of an alcohol-related offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
	(i)  A judge who grants community supervision to a person 
convicted of an offense under Chapter 49, Penal Code, other than an 
offense under Section 49.02 or 49.031, Penal Code, may require the 
person to pay an amount not to exceed $500 in one payment or in 
periodic installments, as considered appropriate by the judge, to a 
trauma facility owned or operated by a political subdivision of 
this state.
	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 the effective date of this Act.  An 
offense committed before the effective date of this Act 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 the effective date of 
this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that 
date.