88R3661 MCF-D
 
  By: Moody H.B. No. 905
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined
  in jail or prison before sentencing.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2(a), Article 42.03, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  In all criminal cases the judge of the court in which the
  defendant is convicted shall give the defendant credit on the
  defendant's sentence for the time that the defendant has spent:
               (1)  in jail for the case, including confinement served
  as described by Article 46B.009 and excluding confinement served as
  a condition of community supervision, from the time of the
  defendant's [his] arrest and confinement until the defendant's
  [his] sentence by the trial court;
               (2)  in a substance abuse treatment facility operated
  by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under Section 493.009,
  Government Code, or another court-ordered residential program or
  facility as a condition of deferred adjudication community
  supervision granted in the case if the defendant successfully
  completes the treatment program at that facility; [or]
               (3)  confined in a mental health facility or
  residential care facility as described by Article 46B.009; or
               (4)  confined in jail or prison for another case if that
  confinement occurred after the commission of the offense for which
  the defendant is convicted and before the date of the defendant's
  sentencing.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
  defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective
  date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed
  before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.