1-1  By:  Alvarado (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)              H.B. No. 253
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 1995;
    1-3  May 5, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
    1-4  Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to requiring that parole officers receive information on
    1-9  new parolees within 14 days after release.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 8(d), Article 42.09, Code of Criminal
   1-12  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (d)  The institutional division of the Texas Department of
   1-14  Criminal Justice shall make documents received under Subsections
   1-15  (a) and (c) <of this section> available to the pardons and paroles
   1-16  division on the request of the pardons and paroles division and
   1-17  shall, on release of a defendant on parole or to mandatory
   1-18  supervision, immediately provide the pardons and paroles division
   1-19  with copies of documents received under Subsection (a).  The
   1-20  pardons and paroles division shall provide to the parole officer
   1-21  appointed to supervise the defendant a comprehensive summary of the
   1-22  information contained in the documents referenced in this section
   1-23  not later than the 14th day after the date of the defendant's
   1-24  release.  The summary shall include a current photograph of the
   1-25  defendant and a complete set of the defendant's fingerprints.
   1-26  Upon written request from the county sheriff, the photograph and
   1-27  fingerprints shall be filed with the sheriff of the county to which
   1-28  the parolee is assigned if that county is not the county from which
   1-29  the parolee was sentenced.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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