75R10891 GWK-D By Burnam H.B. No. 658 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 658: By Allen C.S.H.B. No. 658 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the county of residence of certain persons released on 1-3 parole or to mandatory supervision after serving sentences for 1-4 sexual offenses. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 8A, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal 1-7 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-8 (g) The pardons and paroles division shall, on the first 1-9 working day of each month, notify the sheriff of any county in 1-10 which the total number of sex offenders under the supervision and 1-11 control of the division residing in the county exceeds 10 percent 1-12 of the total number of sex offenders in the state under the 1-13 supervision and control of the division. If the total number of 1-14 sex offenders under the supervision and control of the division 1-15 residing in a county exceeds 25 percent of the total number of sex 1-16 offenders in the state under the supervision and control of the 1-17 division, a parole panel may require a sex offender to reside in 1-18 that county only as required by Subsection (a) or for the reason 1-19 stated in Subsection (b)(2)(B). In this subsection, "sex offender" 1-20 means a person who is released on parole or to mandatory 1-21 supervision after serving a sentence for an offense described by 1-22 Section 8(u)(2). 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-24 applies only to a person who is released on parole or to mandatory 2-1 supervision on or after that date. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.