By:  Whitmire                                                     S.B. No. 921
	(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2003; March 11, 2003, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 
May 7, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4, 
Nays 0; May 7, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the authority of a judge to reduce or terminate the 
community supervision of a defendant convicted of an offense 
punishable as a state jail felony.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 20, Article 42.12, Code 
of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  This section does not apply to a defendant convicted of 
an offense under Sections 49.04-49.08, Penal Code, or a defendant 
convicted of an offense for which on conviction registration as a 
sex offender is required under Chapter 62[, as added by Chapter 668, 
Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, or a defendant 
convicted of an offense punishable as a state jail felony].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies to a defendant placed on community supervision before, on, 
or after the effective date of this Act.



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