By Shapiro                                              S.B. No. 47
       74R1072 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to notification of certain persons about procedures in the
    1-3  community supervision process that apply to defendants who
    1-4  victimized those persons.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 14 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 14.  VICTIM NOTIFICATION.  (a)  A department, using the
    1-9  name and address provided by the attorney representing the state
   1-10  under Article 56.08(d), shall make a reasonable effort to notify a
   1-11  victim of the defendant's crime or, if the victim has a guardian or
   1-12  is deceased, to notify the guardian of the victim or close relative
   1-13  of the deceased victim of:
   1-14              (1)  the fact that the defendant has been placed on
   1-15  community supervision;
   1-16              (2)  the conditions of community supervision imposed on
   1-17  the defendant by the court; and
   1-18              (3)  the date, time, and location of any hearing or
   1-19  proceeding at which the conditions of the defendant's community
   1-20  supervision may be modified or the defendant's placement on
   1-21  community supervision may be revoked or terminated.
   1-22        (b)  In this section, "close relative of a deceased victim,"
   1-23  "guardian of a victim," and "victim" have the meanings assigned by
   1-24  Article 56.01.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Article 56.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    2-2  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    2-3        (d)  An attorney representing the state who receives
    2-4  information concerning a victim's current address and phone number
    2-5  shall immediately provide that information to the community
    2-6  supervision and corrections department supervising the defendant,
    2-7  if the defendant is placed on community supervision.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  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.