86R11774 JRR-D
 
  By: Watson S.B. No. 989
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a mandatory term of confinement for defendants placed
  on community supervision for the criminal offense of leaving the
  scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a
  person.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.515 to read as follows:
         Art. 42A.515.  COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR LEAVING SCENE OF
  MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT RESULTING IN DEATH OF PERSON. (a)  A judge
  granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an
  offense punishable under Section 550.021(c)(1)(A), Transportation
  Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision that
  the defendant submit to a term of confinement of not less than 120
  days.
         (b)  If a sentence of confinement is imposed on the
  revocation of community supervision, the term of confinement served
  under Subsection (a) may not be credited toward completion of the
  sentence imposed.
         SECTION 2.  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
  governed by the law in effect on the date 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 the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.