By: Whitmire S.B. No. 345
(In the Senate - Filed February 4, 2013; February 5, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
March 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; March 20, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the abolition of the state boot camp program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The following are repealed:
(1) Section 8, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure; and
(2) Section 499.052, Government Code.
SECTION 2. (a) On and after the effective date of this Act:
(1) a judge may not recommend a person for placement in
the state boot camp program under Section 499.052, Government Code;
and
(2) a participant in the state boot camp program
remains a participant in the program only until the later of the
following dates:
(A) the date on which the convicting court
suspends further execution of the sentence and reassumes custody of
the person; or
(B) the date on which the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice transfers the person to another unit in the
department.
(b) Section 8, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure,
and Section 499.052, Government Code, repealed by this Act, are
continued in effect for the limited purpose of the orderly
abolition of the state boot camp program created by those
provisions.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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