By:  Smith, Dalton                                     H.B. No. 355
       73R2534 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring the pardons and paroles division of the Texas
    1-3  Department of Criminal Justice to provide certain information
    1-4  concerning halfway houses to community justice councils.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 3, Article 42.131, Code of Criminal
    1-7  Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-8        (d)  The pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department
    1-9  of Criminal Justice, on or before January 1 and July 1 of each
   1-10  year, shall provide to each council the following information
   1-11  concerning each halfway house located in the area the council
   1-12  serves:
   1-13              (1)  whether the halfway house receives money from the
   1-14  division or any other state agency and, if so, the amount of money
   1-15  received in the preceding six months; and
   1-16              (2)  the name and business address of the owner of the
   1-17  halfway house.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The pardons and paroles division of the Texas
   1-19  Department of Criminal Justice shall make the first report to
   1-20  community justice councils, as required by Section 3(d), Article
   1-21  42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act, not later
   1-22  than January 1, 1994.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.