81R10783 PEP-D
By: West S.B. No. 1917
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain responsibilities of a defendant serving a term
of community supervision who changes residence within this state.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 17(a), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(a) If, for good and sufficient reasons, a defendant desires
to change the defendant's [his] residence within the state, the
change may be effected by application to the defendant's
[supervising] supervision officer. A[, which] change of residence
under this subsection is [shall be] subject to the judge's consent
and subject to any conditions of community supervision the judge
imposes as a result of the change, in addition to any other
conditions imposed under this article [such regulations as the
judge may require in the absence of an officer in the locality to
which the defendant is transferred].
SECTION 2. Section 19, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
(i) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), in a misdemeanor case
in which the community supervision and corrections department
supervising a defendant changes as a result of a change in the
defendant's residence, the defendant shall pay any fee imposed on
the defendant under this section to the department currently
supervising the defendant.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.