BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 1103

By: Lucio III

Criminal Jurisprudence

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Texas animal shelters are overpopulated and underfunded.  H.B. 1103 alleviates these problems by requiring a judge who grants community supervision to a defendant convicted of a certain animal cruelty-related offense to require the defendant to pay $100 to a certain designated animal shelter. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 1103 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to require a judge who grants community supervision to a person convicted of an offense of cruelty to a livestock animal, attack on an assistance animal, cruelty to a nonlivestock animal, or dog fighting to require the person to pay $100 to the animal shelter designated by the judge as the nearest animal shelter to the location where the offense occurred that receives federal, state, county, or municipal funds and that serves the county in which the court is located. The bill provides for the meaning of "animal shelter" by reference to the Health and Safety Code.

H.B. 1103 amends the Government Code to  make a conforming change in provisions relating to miscellaneous court fees and costs.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2011.