Bill Text: TX HB2735 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to procedures for certain persons charged with an administrative violation of a condition of release from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or to mandatory supervision.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2735 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2735-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for certain persons charged with an administrative violation of a condition of release from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or to mandatory supervision.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2735 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2735-Comm_Sub.html
By: Madden (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | H.B. No. 2735 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2011; | ||
May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 5, Nays 2; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to procedures for certain persons charged with an | ||
administrative violation of a condition of release from the Texas | ||
Department of Criminal Justice on parole or to mandatory | ||
supervision. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 508.251, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) Instead of the issuance of a warrant under this section, | ||
the division: | ||
(1) may issue to the person a summons requiring the | ||
person to appear for a hearing under Section 508.281 if [ |
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person is not a releasee who is: | ||
(A) on intensive supervision or superintensive | ||
supervision; | ||
(B) [ |
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(C) [ |
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a threat to public safety; and | ||
(2) shall issue to the person a summons requiring the | ||
person to appear for a hearing under Section 508.281 if the person: | ||
(A) is charged only with committing an | ||
administrative violation of release that is alleged to have been | ||
committed after the third anniversary of the date the person was | ||
released on parole or to mandatory supervision; | ||
(B) is not serving a sentence for, and has not | ||
been previously convicted of, an offense listed in or described by | ||
Article 62.001(5), Code of Criminal Procedure; and | ||
(C) is not a releasee with respect to whom a | ||
summons may not be issued under Subdivision (1). | ||
(c-1) A [ |
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the time, date, place, and purpose of the hearing. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a person who on or after the effective date of this Act is charged | ||
with a violation of the terms of the person's release on parole or | ||
to mandatory supervision. A person who before the effective date of | ||
this Act was charged with a violation of the terms of the person's | ||
release is governed by the law in effect when the violation was | ||
charged, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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