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.
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