Bill Text: TX HB1710 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to notice provided to a court regarding a defendant confined in a state jail felony facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2024 [HB1710 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1710-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1710 | ||
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| relating to notice provided to a court regarding a defendant | ||
| confined in a state jail felony facility. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 42A.558, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) On request of the judge, the Texas Department of | ||
| Criminal Justice shall, not later than the 60th day after the date | ||
| the defendant is received into the custody of a state jail felony | ||
| facility, notify the judge of the date on which the defendant will | ||
| have served 75 days in the facility. The notice must be provided by | ||
| e-mail or other electronic communication. | ||
| (b-2) For purposes of Subsection (b-1), the judge may submit | ||
| a single request to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with | ||
| respect to all applicable defendants sentenced in the judge's | ||
| court. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Article | ||
| 42A.558, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies only to a defendant | ||
| who receives a sentence of confinement in a state jail felony | ||
| facility on or after the effective date of this Act. A defendant | ||
| who receives a sentence of confinement in a state jail felony | ||
| facility before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
| law in effect at the time of sentencing, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2024. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1710 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1710 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 3, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1710 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 18, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
