1-1 By: Moncrief, Shapiro, West, Zaffirini S.B. No. 124 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 6, 1994; January 16, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 January 31, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; 1-6 January 31, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 124 By: Moncrief 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to notification of a victim of the offense of stalking 1-11 about the release on bail of the defendant in the case. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Article 17.29, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-14 amended to read as follows: 1-15 Art. 17.29. ACCUSED LIBERATED. (a) When the accused has 1-16 given the required bond, either to the magistrate or the officer 1-17 having him in custody, he shall at once be set at liberty. 1-18 (b) Before releasing on bail a person arrested for an 1-19 offense under Section 42.07(a)(7), Penal Code, the law enforcement 1-20 agency arresting or holding the person shall make a reasonable 1-21 attempt to give personal notice of the imminent release to the 1-22 victim of the alleged offense or to another person designated by 1-23 the victim to receive the notice. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *