H.B. No. 253
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.