86R2969 MAW-F
By: Coleman, Thompson of Harris, Collier H.B. No. 1761
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined
in jail or prison before sentencing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 42.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Section 2-a to read as follows:
Sec. 2-a. In addition to the credit given to a defendant
under Section 2, the judge of the court in which the defendant is
convicted may give the defendant credit on the defendant's sentence
for any time the defendant was confined in jail or prison for
another case only, if that confinement occurred after the
commission of the offense for which the defendant is convicted and
before the date of the defendant's sentencing.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective
date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.