The provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions are the subject of this analysis.  The bill would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure to require a judge to take into consideration whether a person is the sole caretaker of a child when considering whether to revoke the community supervision of a person whose violation of community supervision did not involve an arrest for an offense punishable as a Class B misdemeanor or any higher category of offense.

Reducing the circumstances for the revocation of persons under community supervision is expected to result in fewer demands upon the correctional resources of the counties or of the state due to a decrease in the number of individuals admitted to state correctional institutions.  In fiscal year 2018, based on data reported to the community supervision tracking system (CSTS), 12,642 persons whose felony community supervision was revoked did not include a violation of community supervision which involved an arrest for an offense punishable as a Class B misdemeanor or any higher category of offense. While the number of individuals who are the sole caretaker of a child is unknown, this analysis assumes the number of times in which a judge did not take this information into consideration would not result in a significant impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources.