88R3661 MCF-D     By: Moody H.B. No. 905       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to credit toward a defendant's sentence for time confined   in jail or prison before sentencing.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 2(a), Article 42.03, Code of Criminal   Procedure, is amended to read as follows:          (a)  In all criminal cases the judge of the court in which the   defendant is convicted shall give the defendant credit on the   defendant's sentence for the time that the defendant has spent:                (1)  in jail for the case, including confinement served   as described by Article 46B.009 and excluding confinement served as   a condition of community supervision, from the time of the   defendant's [his] arrest and confinement until the defendant's   [his] sentence by the trial court;                (2)  in a substance abuse treatment facility operated   by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under Section 493.009,   Government Code, or another court-ordered residential program or   facility as a condition of deferred adjudication community   supervision granted in the case if the defendant successfully   completes the treatment program at that facility; [or]                (3)  confined in a mental health facility or   residential care facility as described by Article 46B.009; or                (4)  confined in jail or prison for another case if that   confinement occurred after the commission of the offense for which   the defendant is convicted and before the date of the defendant's   sentencing.          SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a   defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective   date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed   before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.