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| 1 | 1 | By: J. Johnson of Harris H.B. No. 4187 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to providing a list of approved devices to defendants | |
| 7 | 7 | restricted to the operation of a vehicle equipped with an ignition | |
| 8 | 8 | interlock device as a condition of community supervision. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Article 42A.408, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | |
| 11 | 11 | amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (i) A defendant ordered to install an interlock device as a | |
| 13 | 13 | condition of community supervision shall have the ability to choose | |
| 14 | 14 | from among any interlock provider approved by the Department of | |
| 15 | 15 | Public Safety as provided by subsection (g) of this section. | |
| 16 | 16 | SECTION 2. The Department of Public Safety shall publish a | |
| 17 | 17 | list of approved ignition interlock devices as required by Article | |
| 18 | 18 | 42A.408(g-1), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act, not | |
| 19 | 19 | later than December 1, 2021. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 21 | 21 | to a defendant placed on community supervision on or after January | |
| 22 | 22 | 23 1, 2021. | |
| 23 | 23 | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |