By Alvarado                                            H.B. No. 253
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring that parole officers receive information on
    1-3  new parolees within 14 days after release.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 8(d), Article 42.09, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  The institutional division of the Texas Department of
    1-8  Criminal Justice shall make documents received under Subsections
    1-9  (a) and (c) <of this section> available to the pardons and paroles
   1-10  division on the request of the pardons and paroles division and
   1-11  shall, on release of a defendant on parole or to mandatory
   1-12  supervision, immediately provide the pardons and paroles division
   1-13  with copies of documents received under Subsection (a).  The
   1-14  pardons and paroles division shall provide to the parole officer
   1-15  appointed to supervise the defendant a comprehensive summary of the
   1-16  information contained in the documents referenced in this section
   1-17  not later than the 14th day after the date of the defendant's
   1-18  release.  The summary shall include a current photograph of the
   1-19  defendant and a complete set of the defendant's fingerprints.
   1-20  Upon written request from the county sheriff, the photograph and
   1-21  fingerprints shall be filed with the sheriff of the county to which
   1-22  the parolee is assigned if that county is not the county from which
   1-23  the parolee was sentenced.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.