SGN H.B. 1050 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


CORRECTIONS
H.B. 1050
By: Gutierrez
3-5-97
Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND 

Section 42.072 of the Penal Code provides that a person commits a Class A
misdemeanor offense if the person, on more than one occasion and pursuant
to the same scheme or course of conduct that is directed specifically at
another person, knowingly engages in conduct, including following the
other person, that the actor knows or reasonably believes the other person
will regard as threatening.   Provides that the offense is a third degree
felony if the actor has previously been convicted under this section. 

PURPOSE

If enacted, House Bill 1050 may require an inmate serving a sentence under
Section 42.072, Penal Code, to attend psychological counseling sessions
for a specific duration imposed by the parole panel as a condition of
parole or release to mandatory supervision. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Subdivision (1), Subsection (o), Section 8, Article
42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, by adding the attendance at
psychological counseling sessions of a type and for a duration specified
by the parole panel as a possible condition of parole or mandatory
supervision for an inmate serving an offense of stalking.   

SECTION 2.  Emergency clause.