bill defines prior conviction for stacking sentences

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89R13759 MCF-F

By: Louderback
H.B. No. 3779

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the imposition of concurrent or consecutive sentences

for certain convictions.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Article 42.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, is

amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:

(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), a defendant has been

convicted of an offense if the defendant was adjudged guilty of the

offense or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in return for

a grant of deferred adjudication community supervision, regardless

of whether the sentence for the offense was ever imposed or whether

the sentence was probated and the defendant was subsequently

discharged from community supervision.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only

to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.

An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is

governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,

and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For

purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the

effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred

before that date.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.