Bill Text: TX SB2007 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by persons placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for certain felony offenses; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB2007 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2007-Introduced.html
| 86R1924 MAW-F | ||
| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 2007 | |
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| relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by persons placed | ||
| on deferred adjudication community supervision for certain felony | ||
| offenses; creating a criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 46.04, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) A person who has been placed on deferred adjudication | ||
| community supervision for a felony listed in Article 42A.054(a), | ||
| Code of Criminal Procedure, commits an offense if the person | ||
| possesses a firearm during the person's period of supervision. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| person on deferred adjudication community supervision on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the person was | ||
| placed on deferred adjudication community supervision before, on, | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
