Bill Text: TX HB1505 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision prohibiting contact with certain persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1505 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1505-Comm_Sub.html
85R23166 MAW-F | |||
By: Allen | H.B. No. 1505 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1505: | |||
By: Schaefer | C.S.H.B. No. 1505 |
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relating to conditions of community supervision prohibiting | ||
contact with certain persons. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.3015 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Art. 42A.3015. PROHIBITING CONTACT WITH CERTAIN PERSONS. A | ||
judge who places a defendant on community supervision may not, as a | ||
condition of community supervision, prohibit the defendant from | ||
contacting or interacting with a person who belongs to an | ||
organization the membership of which includes persons who have | ||
criminal histories, including persons currently on community | ||
supervision or parole, and who engages in activities that the | ||
director of the community supervision and corrections department | ||
supervising the defendant determines, based on information | ||
provided by the organization's designated representative or other | ||
information, include: | ||
(1) working with community members to address criminal | ||
justice issues; | ||
(2) offering training and programs to assist formerly | ||
incarcerated persons; and | ||
(3) advocating for criminal justice reform, including | ||
by: | ||
(A) engaging with state and local policy makers; | ||
or | ||
(B) participating in a lawful manner in rallies, | ||
marches, or other public displays of organized activity. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
defendant placed on community supervision on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense for which the | ||
defendant was placed on community supervision was committed before, | ||
on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |