83R8015 PEP-F
By: White H.B. No. 2736
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the placement on community supervision of certain
defendants convicted of a state jail felony.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 15(f), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by amending Subdivision (1) and adding
Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows:
(1) If a defendant violates a condition of community
supervision imposed on the defendant under this article and after a
hearing under Section 21 [of this article] the judge revokes the
defendant's community supervision, the judge shall dispose of the
case in the manner provided by Section 23 [of this article]. If the
defendant violates a condition of community supervision following
placement on community supervision under Subdivision (2-a), the
judge shall order that all time credits previously earned by the
defendant under Subsection (h)(6) be forfeited and shall require
the defendant to serve the remainder of the original sentence
imposed.
(2-a) A judge who orders a sentence to be executed
under Subsection (a)(2) shall on the defendant's completion of
one-half of the sentence imposed, including time credits earned
under Subsection (h)(6), suspend the further execution of the
sentence and place the defendant on community supervision, unless
the execution of the sentence resulted from an adjudication of the
guilt of a defendant previously placed on deferred adjudication
community supervision for the offense. A term of community
supervision under this subdivision may not exceed two years.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a defendant who is convicted of an offense on or after the
effective date of this Act. A defendant who is convicted of an
offense before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
in effect at the time of the conviction, 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, 2013.