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. 1-29 * * * * *