By Stiles H.B. No. 1843 74R3385 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the photographing and fingerprinting of certain inmates 1-3 released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or 1-4 mandatory supervision. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 29 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 29. If a parole panel requires a person released on 1-9 parole or mandatory supervision to reside in a county other than 1-10 the county in which the person was sentenced, the parole officer 1-11 supervising the person, not later than the third business day after 1-12 the date the person is required to initially report to the officer, 1-13 shall accompany the person to the sheriff's office in the county in 1-14 which the person is required to reside. The sheriff's office may 1-15 photograph and take fingerprints of the person and maintain the 1-16 photographs and fingerprints in the records of the office. 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.