By Madla                                               S.B. No. 236
       74R2916 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to jury instructions on the county in which an inmate is
    1-3  required to reside after being released on parole.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4, Article 37.07, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  In the penalty phase of the trial of a felony case in
    1-8  which the punishment is to be assessed by the jury rather than the
    1-9  court, in addition to the charge given the jury under Subsection
   1-10  (a), (b), or (c), the court shall charge the jury in writing as
   1-11  follows:
   1-12        "Under the law applicable in this case, the defendant, if
   1-13  released on parole, shall be required to reside:
   1-14              (1)  in the county in which the defendant resided at
   1-15  the time of committing the offense, unless the defendant was a
   1-16  resident of another state at the time of committing the offense, in
   1-17  which event the defendant shall be required to reside in the county
   1-18  in which the offense was committed;
   1-19              (2)  in any other county in which a parole panel of the
   1-20  Board of Pardons and Paroles requires the defendant to reside, as
   1-21  necessary to protect the safety of the victim or to increase the
   1-22  likelihood of the defendant's successful completion of parole; or
   1-23              (3)  at the discretion of the parole panel, in another
   1-24  state."
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
    2-2  applies only to a trial the punishment phase of which commences on
    2-3  or after that date.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.