Bill Text: TX HB374 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to meetings or visits between a defendant on community supervision and a supervision officer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB374 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB374-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 374 | ||
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| relating to meetings or visits between a defendant on community | ||
| supervision and a supervision officer. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 76, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 76.019 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 76.019. SUPERVISION OFFICER MEETINGS AND VISITS. (a) | ||
| A department shall adopt a policy regarding the scheduling of | ||
| meetings or visits with a defendant placed on community supervision | ||
| and supervised by the department. The policy must require the | ||
| officer supervising the defendant to take into consideration the | ||
| defendant's work, treatment, or community service schedule, as | ||
| applicable, when scheduling any required meetings or visits. | ||
| (b) A department may permit a defendant to report to the | ||
| officer supervising the defendant by use of videoconference | ||
| technology if the department determines that an in-person meeting | ||
| or visit is unnecessary. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2020, each community | ||
| supervision and corrections department shall adopt the policy | ||
| required by Section 76.019, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 374 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 2, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 5, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 374 on May 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 106, Nays 0, 1 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 374 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 1, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
