By Shapiro S.B. No. 46 74R1069 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring victim notification when an inmate escapes 1-3 from a facility operated by the institutional division of the Texas 1-4 Department of Criminal Justice. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by adding Article 56.12 to read as follows: 1-8 Art. 56.12. NOTIFICATION OF ESCAPE. (a) The institutional 1-9 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall 1-10 immediately notify the victim of an offense, the victim's guardian, 1-11 or the victim's close relative, if the victim is deceased, whenever 1-12 the offender escapes from a facility operated by the institutional 1-13 division, if the victim, victim's guardian, or victim's close 1-14 relative has notified the institutional division as provided by 1-15 Subsection (b). 1-16 (b) It is the responsibility of the victim, guardian, or 1-17 close relative desiring notification of an offender's escape to 1-18 notify the institutional division of the Texas Department of 1-19 Criminal Justice of the desire for notification and any change of 1-20 address. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.