H.B. No. 157




AN ACT

relating to the conditions of community supervision for certain 
persons convicted of an intoxication offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 13(a), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A judge granting community supervision to a defendant 
convicted of an offense under Chapter 49, Penal Code, shall require 
as a condition of community supervision that the defendant submit 
to:
		(1)  not less than 72 hours [three days] of continuous
confinement in county jail if the defendant was punished under 
Section 49.09(a); not less than five days of confinement in county 
jail if the defendant was punished under Section 49.09(a) and was 
subject to Section 49.09(h); not less than 10 days of confinement in 
county jail if the defendant was punished under Section 49.09(b) or 
(c); or not less than 30 days of confinement in county jail if the 
defendant was convicted under Section 49.07; and
		(2)  an evaluation by a supervision officer or by a 
person, program, or facility approved by the Texas Commission on 
Alcohol and Drug Abuse for the purpose of having the facility 
prescribe and carry out a course of conduct necessary for the 
rehabilitation of the defendant's drug or alcohol dependence 
condition.
	SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to 
the terms of community supervision for an offense under Chapter 49, 
Penal Code, that is committed on or after September 1, 2005.  The 
terms of community supervision for an offense under Chapter 49, 
Penal Code, that was committed before September 1, 2005, are 
covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the 
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of 
this subsection, an offense was committed before September 1, 2005, 
if any element of the offense was committed before that date.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 157 was passed by the House on April 
6, 2005, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 157 was passed by the Senate on May 
25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor