1-1  By:  Shapiro, Sims                                      S.B. No. 47
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 1994; January 10, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  February 15, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; February 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Shapiro
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 47 as follows:
    1-8        (1)  In SECTION 1, proposed Article 42.131, Code of Criminal
    1-9  Procedure, insert a new Subsection (b) to read as follows:
   1-10        "(b)  An attempt by the department to give notice to the
   1-11  victim, the guardian of the victim, or a close relative of a
   1-12  deceased victim at the victim's, the guardian of the victim's, or a
   1-13  close relative of a deceased victim's last known telephone number
   1-14  or address as shown on the records of the department constitutes a
   1-15  reasonable attempt to give notice under this section."  (introduced
   1-16  version, page 1, line 22; committee printing page 1, line 40).
   1-17        (2)  Renumber subsequent subsections appropriately.
   1-18                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-19                                AN ACT
   1-20  relating to notification of certain persons about procedures in the
   1-21  community supervision process that apply to defendants who
   1-22  victimized those persons.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-25  amended by adding Section 14 to read as follows:
   1-26        Sec. 14.  VICTIM NOTIFICATION.  (a)  A department, using the
   1-27  name and address provided by the attorney representing the state
   1-28  under Article 56.08(d) of this code, shall make a reasonable effort
   1-29  to notify a victim of the defendant's crime or, if the victim has a
   1-30  guardian or is deceased, to notify the guardian of the victim or
   1-31  close relative of the deceased victim of:
   1-32              (1)  the fact that the defendant has been placed on
   1-33  community supervision;
   1-34              (2)  the conditions of community supervision imposed on
   1-35  the defendant by the court; and
   1-36              (3)  the date, time, and location of any hearing or
   1-37  proceeding at which the conditions of the defendant's community
   1-38  supervision may be modified or the defendant's placement on
   1-39  community supervision may be revoked or terminated.
   1-40        (b)  In this section, "close relative of a deceased victim,"
   1-41  "guardian of a victim," and "victim" have the meanings assigned by
   1-42  Article 56.01 of this code.
   1-43        SECTION 2.  Article 56.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-44  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-45        (d)  An attorney representing the state who receives
   1-46  information concerning a victim's current address and phone number
   1-47  shall immediately provide that information to the community
   1-48  supervision and corrections department supervising the defendant,
   1-49  if the defendant is placed on community supervision.
   1-50        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-51        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-52  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-53  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-54  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-55  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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