80R18767 SLO-F
 
  By: Seliger S.B. No. 877
 
  Substitute the following for S.B. No. 877:
 
  By:  PenaC.S.S.B. No. 877C.S.S.B. No. 877  Pena C.S.S.B. No. 877
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a limitation on judge-ordered community supervision for
certain defendants convicted of first-degree felony injury to a
child.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 3g(a), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
       (a)  The provisions of Section 3 of this article do not
apply:
             (1)  to a defendant adjudged guilty of an offense
under:
                   (A)  Section 19.02, Penal Code (Murder);
                   (B)  Section 19.03, Penal Code (Capital murder);
                   (C)  Section 21.11(a)(1), Penal Code (Indecency
with a child);
                   (D)  Section 20.04, Penal Code (Aggravated
kidnapping);
                   (E)  Section 22.021, Penal Code (Aggravated
sexual assault);
                   (F)  Section 29.03, Penal Code (Aggravated
robbery);
                   (G)  Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, for
which punishment is increased under:
                         (i)  Section 481.140, Health and Safety
Code; or
                         (ii)  Section 481.134(c), (d), (e), or (f),
Health and Safety Code, if it is shown that the defendant has been
previously convicted of an offense for which punishment was
increased under any of those subsections; [or]
                   (H)  Section 22.011, Penal Code (Sexual assault);
or
                   (I)  Section 22.04(a)(1), Penal Code (Injury to a
child, elderly individual, or disabled individual), if the offense
is punishable as a felony of the first degree and the victim of the
offense is a child; or
             (2)  to a defendant when it is shown that a deadly
weapon as defined in Section 1.07, Penal Code, was used or exhibited
during the commission of a felony offense or during immediate
flight therefrom, and that the defendant used or exhibited the
deadly weapon or was a party to the offense and knew that a deadly
weapon would be used or exhibited. On an affirmative finding under
this subdivision, the trial court shall enter the finding in the
judgment of the court. On an affirmative finding that the deadly
weapon was a firearm, the court shall enter that finding in its
judgment.
       SECTION 2.  Section 508.145(d), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
       (d)  An inmate serving a sentence for an offense described by
Section 3g(a)(1)(A), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), [or] (H), or (I),
Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or for an offense for
which the judgment contains an affirmative finding under Section
3g(a)(2) of that article, is not eligible for release on parole
until the inmate's actual calendar time served, without
consideration of good conduct time, equals one-half of the sentence
or 30 calendar years, whichever is less, but in no event is the
inmate eligible for release on parole in less than two calendar
years.
       SECTION 3.  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 section, an offense is committed before the effective date of
this Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective
date.
       SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.