By: Jones of Harris H.B. No. 5164
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 relating 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 or before the commission of the offense for which the
defendant is convicted and before the date of the defendant's
sentencing.
Sec. 2-b. 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 combined credit on the defendant's
sentence for any time the defendant was confined in jail or prison
for another case regardless of which plea deal the defendant agrees
to.
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, 2023.