Bill Text: TX HB1601 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the release on personal bond of a person who is pregnant.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-04 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB1601 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1601-Introduced.html
| 86R2294 ADM-D | ||
| By: Israel | H.B. No. 1601 | |
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| relating to the release on personal bond of a person who is | ||
| pregnant. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 17.034 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 17.034. RELEASE ON PERSONAL BOND OF PREGNANT | ||
| DEFENDANT. A magistrate shall release a defendant on personal bond | ||
| without sureties or other security if the defendant is pregnant, | ||
| unless good cause is shown otherwise. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a person who is arrested on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A person arrested before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the person was arrested, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
