Bill Text: TX SB1147 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to conditions of community supervision applicable to certain intoxication offenses.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1147 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1147-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Buckingham S.B. No. 1147
(In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2019; March 7, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 26, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 26, 2019,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1147 By: Whitmire

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to conditions of community supervision applicable to
certain intoxication offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 42A.402, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) If, based on the evaluation conducted under Subsection
(d), the judge determines that the defendant would likely benefit
from medication-assisted treatment approved by the United States
Food and Drug Administration for alcohol dependence, the judge may
require as a condition of community supervision that the defendant
submit to an evaluation by a licensed physician to determine
whether the defendant would benefit from medication-assisted
treatment. Only a licensed physician may recommend that a
defendant participate in medication-assisted treatment. A
defendant is entitled to refuse to participate in
medication-assisted treatment, and a judge may not require as a
condition of community supervision that the defendant participate
in medication-assisted treatment.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
defendant placed on community supervision on or after the effective
date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense for which the
defendant was placed on community supervision was committed before,
on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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