By: Culberson H.B. No. 2351
72S40017 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the publication of the names and photographs of certain
1-3 persons who fail to report to a parole officer or supervisor in
1-4 violation of a condition of the person's release from prison.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 28 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 28. The pardons and paroles division each month shall
1-9 compile a list containing the names of the 25 most violent and
1-10 dangerous persons, as determined by the division, who failed to
1-11 report during the previous month to a parole officer or supervisor
1-12 in violation of a condition of the persons' release on parole or to
1-13 mandatory supervision and who have not been apprehended. The
1-14 division shall publish the names on the list and photographs of the
1-15 persons every day for two consecutive weeks in newspapers of
1-16 general circulation in the state.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.