Bill Text: TX SB1428 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the reformation of the sentences of juveniles convicted of capital felonies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-25 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1428 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1428-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 1428 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 18, 2013, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
| April 22, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1; April 22, 2013, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1428 | By: Huffman | |
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| relating to the reformation of the sentences of juveniles convicted | ||
| of capital felonies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 44, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 44.252 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 44.252. REFORMATION OF SENTENCE IN CAPITAL CASE | ||
| INVOLVING JUVENILE DEFENDANT. The court of criminal appeals shall | ||
| reform a sentence of imprisonment of a defendant committed to the | ||
| Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life without parole, | ||
| including a sentence previously reformed from death to a sentence | ||
| of imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for | ||
| life without parole, to a sentence of imprisonment in the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice for life, or for any term of not more | ||
| than 99 years, if the court finds that the defendant committed the | ||
| offense before the defendant's 18th birthday. The court shall make | ||
| an individualized assessment of the defendant's circumstances and | ||
| the circumstances surrounding the offense in determining the length | ||
| of the reformed sentence. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 3, Chapter 765 (Senate | ||
| Bill No. 839), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, | ||
| the changes made by that Act to Section 12.31, Penal Code, and | ||
| Section 508.145, Government Code, apply to offenses committed | ||
| before, on, or after September 1, 2009, the effective date of that | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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