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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