By Alvarado                                            H.B. No. 255
       74R2458 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requests by the pardons and paroles division of the
    1-3  Texas Department of Criminal Justice for criminal history record
    1-4  information on certain parolees and persons released to mandatory
    1-5  supervision.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-8  amended by adding Section 17A to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 17A.  CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION.  (a)  The
   1-10  pardons and paroles division shall request of the Department of
   1-11  Public Safety criminal history record information on persons
   1-12  described by Subsection (b) who have been released on parole or
   1-13  mandatory supervision and have not discharged parole or mandatory
   1-14  supervision.
   1-15        (b)  This section applies to an inmate who:
   1-16              (1)  at any time after release is permitted under
   1-17  Section 16 to serve the remainder of the inmate's sentence without
   1-18  supervision and without being required to report to the pardons and
   1-19  paroles division;
   1-20              (2)  is determined by the pardons and paroles division
   1-21  to have absconded from the supervision of the division; or
   1-22              (3)  has previously been convicted of an offense under
   1-23  Section 21.11, 22.011, or 22.021, Penal Code, regardless of whether
   1-24  the sentence for which the inmate was serving a term of
    2-1  imprisonment immediately before release was for an offense under
    2-2  one of those sections.
    2-3        (c)  The pardons and paroles division shall request the
    2-4  criminal history record information of an inmate described by:
    2-5              (1)  Subsection (b)(1), at least annually;
    2-6              (2)  Subsection (b)(2), at least quarterly; and
    2-7              (3)  Subsection (b)(3), at least monthly.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.