HBA-BSM H.B. 3114 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3114 By: Ritter Criminal Jurisprudence 4/17/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, many defendants in community supervision are having their probation revoked because of technical violations. Under current law, judges are authorized to sentence defendants in community supervision to time in county jail but not state jail. Allowing a short-term confinement in state jail might provide an additional option for judges regarding violators of community supervision without revoking their probation. House Bill 3114 provides judges with the option of sentencing certain defendants on community supervision to a term in state jail. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS House Bill 3114 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to provide that if a judge having jurisdiction of a felony case, other than a state jail felony case, requires as a condition of community supervision that the defendant submit to a period of confinement in a state jail felony facility, the period of confinement may not be less than 60 days and may not exceed one year. A judge that requires a defendant to submit to confinement may require the defendant to perform any service or participate in any program that the judge could require of a defendant confined in a state jail felony facility after conviction of a state jail felony. H.B. 3114 amends the Government Code to authorize the state jail division to confine defendants in a state jail felony facility as a condition of community supervision following a grant of deferred adjudication for or conviction of an offense punishable as a felony other than a state jail felony. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2001.