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