Bill Text: TX HB574 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the consequences of successfully completing a period of deferred adjudication community supervision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB574 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB574-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the consequences of successfully completing a period of deferred adjudication community supervision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB574 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB574-Introduced.html
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By: Dutton | H.B. No. 574 |
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relating to the consequences of successfully completing a period of | ||
deferred adjudication community supervision. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 42A.111, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsection (d) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c-1) Notwithstanding any other law, a dismissal and | ||
discharge under this article may be used only as described by | ||
Section 12.42(g)(1), Penal Code, or as otherwise described by this | ||
article. A dismissal and discharge under this article may not be | ||
used as grounds for denying housing, employment, or a professional | ||
license to an individual who is otherwise entitled to or qualified | ||
for the housing, employment, or license. | ||
(d) For any defendant who receives a dismissal and discharge | ||
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that the defendant previously has received deferred adjudication | ||
community supervision is admissible before the court or jury for | ||
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a defendant placed on deferred adjudication community | ||
supervision for an offense committed on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. A defendant placed on deferred adjudication community | ||
supervision for 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 | ||
was committed before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |