79R7186 MFC-D

By:  Barrientos                                                   S.B. No. 1675


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the length of confinement in county jail as a condition of community supervision that may be imposed on certain defendants. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 12, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows: (a) If a judge having jurisdiction of a misdemeanor case requires as a condition of community supervision that the defendant submit to a period of confinement in a county jail, the period of confinement may not exceed 60 [30] days for a Class B misdemeanor or 90 days for a Class A misdemeanor. If a judge having jurisdiction of a felony case requires as a condition of community supervision that the defendant submit to a period of confinement in a county jail, the period of confinement may not exceed 180 days. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to a defendant convicted of or placed on community supervision for an offense committed on or after September 1, 2005. A defendant convicted of or placed on community supervision for an offense committed before September 1, 2005, 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 section, an offense was committed before September 1, 2005, if any element of the offense was committed before that date. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.