By Moncrief                                            S.B. No. 124
       74R1852 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to notification of a victim of the offense of stalking
    1-3  about the release on bail of the defendant in the case.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 17.29, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 17.29.  ACCUSED LIBERATED.  (a)  When the accused has
    1-8  given the required bond, either to the magistrate or the officer
    1-9  having him in custody, he shall at once be set at liberty.
   1-10        (b)  The law enforcement agency having custody of an accused
   1-11  arrested for an offense under Section 42.07(a)(7), Penal Code, on
   1-12  release of the accused under Subsection (a) of this article, shall
   1-13  immediately make a reasonable effort to give personal notice of the
   1-14  release to the victim of the alleged offense or to another person
   1-15  designated by the victim to receive the notice.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.