By: Whitmire S.B. No. 882
(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2011; March 1, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
March 28, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 28, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the filing of a copy of certain records related to the
release of accused persons on personal bond.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 5, Article 17.42, Code
of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A personal bond pretrial release office established
under this article shall:
(1) prepare a record containing information about any
accused person identified by case number only who, after review by
the office, is released by a court on personal bond;
(2) update the record on a monthly basis; and
(3) file [post] a copy of the record in the office of
the clerk of the county court in any county served by the office.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a record made on or after the effective date of this Act. A
record made before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law in effect on the date the record was made, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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