BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 1287 By: Rose Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties have expressed concern that a court does not have the option to allow defendants in certain counties to participate in an electronic monitoring program as an alternative to serving all or part of a sentence of confinement in county jail if the defendant has been placed on community supervision. H.B. 1287 seeks to address this issue by providing for the judicial option for such a defendant to participate in an electronic monitoring program. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 1287 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to remove from the authorization for a court to require a defendant to participate in an electronic monitoring program operated by the commissioners court of the county or by a private vendor under contract with the commissioners court as an alternative to serving all or part of a sentence of confinement in county jail the condition that the defendant has not been placed on community supervision. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2017.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 1287
By: Rose
Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 1287
By: Rose
Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties have expressed concern that a court does not have the option to allow defendants in certain counties to participate in an electronic monitoring program as an alternative to serving all or part of a sentence of confinement in county jail if the defendant has been placed on community supervision. H.B. 1287 seeks to address this issue by providing for the judicial option for such a defendant to participate in an electronic monitoring program.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 1287 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to remove from the authorization for a court to require a defendant to participate in an electronic monitoring program operated by the commissioners court of the county or by a private vendor under contract with the commissioners court as an alternative to serving all or part of a sentence of confinement in county jail the condition that the defendant has not been placed on community supervision.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2017.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties have expressed concern that a court does not have the option to allow defendants in certain counties to participate in an electronic monitoring program as an alternative to serving all or part of a sentence of confinement in county jail if the defendant has been placed on community supervision. H.B. 1287 seeks to address this issue by providing for the judicial option for such a defendant to participate in an electronic monitoring program.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 1287 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to remove from the authorization for a court to require a defendant to participate in an electronic monitoring program operated by the commissioners court of the county or by a private vendor under contract with the commissioners court as an alternative to serving all or part of a sentence of confinement in county jail the condition that the defendant has not been placed on community supervision.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.