By: Moncrief, et al. S.B. No. 124 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to notification of a victim of the offense of stalking 1-2 about the release on bail of the defendant in the case. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 17.29, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 17.29. ACCUSED LIBERATED. (a) When the accused has 1-7 given the required bond, either to the magistrate or the officer 1-8 having him in custody, he shall at once be set at liberty. 1-9 (b) Before releasing on bail a person arrested for an 1-10 offense under Section 42.07(a)(7), Penal Code, the law enforcement 1-11 agency holding the person shall make a reasonable attempt to give 1-12 personal notice of the imminent release to the victim of the 1-13 alleged offense or to another person designated by the victim to 1-14 receive the notice. An attempt by an agency to give notice to the 1-15 victim or the person designated by the victim at the victim's or 1-16 person's last known telephone number or address, as shown on the 1-17 records of the agency, constitutes a reasonable attempt to give 1-18 notice under this subsection. If possible, the arresting officer 1-19 shall collect the address and telephone number of the victim at the 1-20 time the arrest is made and shall communicate that information to 1-21 the agency holding the person. 1-22 (c) A law enforcement agency or an employee of a law 1-23 enforcement agency is not liable for damages arising from complying 1-24 or failing to comply with Subsection (b) of this article. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.