Bill Text: TX SB1147 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1147 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1147 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 3, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1147 passed the House on | ||
| May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
