By: Moody, Wilson (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 2502
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2019;
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Criminal Justice; May 9, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 9, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a mandatory term of confinement for defendants placed
on community supervision for the criminal offense of leaving the
scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a
person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.515 to read as follows:
Art. 42A.515. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR LEAVING SCENE OF
MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT RESULTING IN DEATH OF PERSON. (a) A judge
granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an
offense punishable under Section 550.021(c)(1)(A), Transportation
Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision that
the defendant submit to a term of confinement of not less than 120
days.
(b) If a sentence of confinement is imposed on the
revocation of community supervision, the term of confinement served
under Subsection (a) may not be credited toward completion of the
sentence imposed.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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