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Texas Senate Bill SB153

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11 By: Huffman S.B. No. 153
22 (In the Senate - Filed November 8, 2010; January 31, 2011,
33 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
44 March 21, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
55 Nays 0; March 21, 2011, sent to printer.)
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88 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
99 AN ACT
1010 relating to the authority of a judge to suspend the imposition of a
1111 sentence and place a defendant on community supervision.
1212 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1313 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 4, Article 42.12, Code
1414 of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1515 (a) A jury that imposes confinement as punishment for an
1616 offense may recommend to the judge that the judge suspend the
1717 imposition of the sentence and place the defendant on community
1818 supervision. A judge shall suspend the imposition of the sentence
1919 and place the defendant on community supervision if the jury makes
2020 that recommendation in the verdict. A judge may not suspend the
2121 imposition of the sentence and place the defendant on community
2222 supervision if the jury does not make that recommendation in the
2323 verdict.
2424 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2525 to the sentence imposed in a criminal trial that commences on or
2626 after the effective date of this Act. The sentence imposed in a
2727 criminal trial commenced before the effective date of this Act is
2828 governed by the law in effect when the trial commenced, and the
2929 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
3030 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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