By Madden                                              H.B. No. 199
       74R840 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the preparation of certain reports by a county or
    1-3  district personal bond office.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1, Article 17.42, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 1.  (a)  Any county, or any judicial district with
    1-8  jurisdiction in more than one county, with the approval of the
    1-9  commissioners court of each county in the district, may establish a
   1-10  personal bond office to gather and review information about an
   1-11  accused that may have a bearing on whether he will comply with the
   1-12  conditions of a personal bond and report its findings to the court
   1-13  before which the case is pending.
   1-14        (b)  In preparing a report under Subsection (a), the personal
   1-15  bond office shall notify the prosecuting attorney, no later than
   1-16  one hour before submitting a report to the court, that:
   1-17              (1)  a report is being prepared; and
   1-18              (2)  the prosecuting attorney may present to the court
   1-19  any matter that should be considered by the court in evaluating the
   1-20  report.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.