Bill Text: TX HB833 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined in jail or prison before sentencing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB833 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB833-Introduced.html

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89R4510 MCF-D
By: Moody H.B. No. 833

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined
in jail or prison before sentencing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2(a), Article 42.03, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(a) In all criminal cases the judge of the court in which the
defendant is convicted shall give the defendant credit on the
defendant's sentence for the time that the defendant has spent:
(1) in jail for the case, including confinement served
as described by Article 46B.009 and excluding confinement served as
a condition of community supervision, from the time of the
defendant's [his] arrest and confinement until the defendant's
[his] sentence by the trial court;
(2) in a substance abuse treatment facility operated
by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under Section 493.009,
Government Code, or another court-ordered residential program or
facility as a condition of deferred adjudication community
supervision granted in the case if the defendant successfully
completes the treatment program at that facility; [or]
(3) confined in a mental health facility or
residential care facility as described by Article 46B.009; or
(4) confined in jail or prison for another case if that
confinement occurred after the commission of the offense for which
the defendant is convicted and before the date of the defendant's
sentencing.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective
date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.