By Alvarado H.B. No. 253
74R1526 PEP-D
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 the copies to the parole
1-15 officer appointed to supervise the defendant not later than the
1-16 14th day after the date of the defendant's release.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-23 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-24 Amend H.B. No. 253, on page 1, line 13 - 16, by striking the
2-1 sentence that begins "The pardons and paroles", and substituting
2-2 the following: "The pardons and paroles division shall provide to
2-3 the parole officer appointed to supervise the defendant a
2-4 comprehensive summary of the information contained in the documents
2-5 referenced in this section not later than the 14th day after the
2-6 date of the defendant's release. The summary shall include a
2-7 current photograph of the defendant and a complete set of the
2-8 defendant's fingerprints. Upon written request from the county
2-9 sheriff, the photograph and fingerprints shall be filed with the
2-10 sheriff of the county to which the parolee is assigned if that
2-11 county is not the county from which the parolee was sentenced"
2-12 Gray