Bill Text: TX SB989 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a mandatory term of confinement for defendants placed on community supervision for the criminal offense of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB989 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB989-Introduced.html
86R11774 JRR-D | ||
By: Watson | S.B. No. 989 |
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relating to a mandatory term of confinement for defendants placed | ||
on community supervision for the criminal offense of leaving the | ||
scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a | ||
person. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.515 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 42A.515. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR LEAVING SCENE OF | ||
MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT RESULTING IN DEATH OF PERSON. (a) A judge | ||
granting community supervision to a defendant convicted of an | ||
offense punishable under Section 550.021(c)(1)(A), Transportation | ||
Code, shall require as a condition of community supervision that | ||
the defendant submit to a term of confinement of not less than 120 | ||
days. | ||
(b) If a sentence of confinement is imposed on the | ||
revocation of community supervision, the term of confinement served | ||
under Subsection (a) may not be credited toward completion of the | ||
sentence imposed. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
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 occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |