Bill Text: TX HB1103 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision for persons convicted of certain criminal offenses involving animal cruelty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1103 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1103-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1103 | ||
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| relating to conditions of community supervision for persons | ||
| convicted of certain criminal offenses involving animal cruelty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: | ||
| (m) If a judge grants community supervision to a person | ||
| convicted of an offense under Section 42.09, 42.091, 42.092, or | ||
| 42.10, Penal Code, the judge may require the person to attend a | ||
| responsible pet owner course sponsored by a municipal animal | ||
| shelter, as defined by Section 823.001, Health and Safety Code, | ||
| that: | ||
| (1) receives federal, state, county, or municipal | ||
| funds; and | ||
| (2) serves the county in which the court is located. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1103 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 1103 on May 26, 2011, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 1103 on May 29, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 132, | ||
| Nays 12, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1103 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays | ||
| 5; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 1103 on May 29, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
