By Zaffirini S.B. No. 223 74R1853 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing notice to victims of domestic violence before 1-3 releasing the offender on bail. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 17.291, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) Before releasing on bail a person arrested or held 1-8 without a warrant in the prevention of family violence, the agency 1-9 arresting or holding the person shall make a reasonable attempt to 1-10 give personal notice of the imminent release to the victim of the 1-11 alleged offense or to another person designated by the victim to 1-12 receive the notice. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.