1-1  By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 223
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 1995; January 18, 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. 223                     By:  West
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to providing notice to victims of domestic violence before
   1-11  releasing the offender.
   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 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-15        (c)  Before releasing on bail a person arrested or held
   1-16  without a warrant in the prevention of family violence or before
   1-17  releasing a person convicted of a family violence offense, the
   1-18  agency arresting or holding the person shall make a reasonable
   1-19  attempt to give personal notice of the imminent release to the
   1-20  victim of the alleged offense or to another person designated by
   1-21  the victim to receive the notice.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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