By Burnam H.B. No. 658 75R2524 PEP-D 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 October 1 and 1-9 March 1 of each year, determine for each county the total number of 1-10 sex offenders under the supervision and control of the division 1-11 residing in the county, the percentage that number represents of 1-12 the total number of sex offenders in the state under the 1-13 supervision and control of the division, the number of sex 1-14 offenders under the supervision and control of the division 1-15 residing in the county as required by a parole panel under 1-16 Subsection (a) of this section, and the number of sex offenders 1-17 under the supervision and control of the division residing in the 1-18 county as permitted by a parole panel under Subsection (b)(2)(D). 1-19 The division shall notify the sheriff of a county if the total 1-20 number of sex offenders under the supervision and control of the 1-21 division residing in the county exceeds 10 percent of the total 1-22 number of sex offenders in the state under the supervision and 1-23 control of the division. A parole panel may not require a sex 1-24 offender to reside in a particular county under Subsection 2-1 (b)(2)(D) if the total number of sex offenders under the 2-2 supervision and control of the division residing in the county 2-3 exceeds 20 percent of the total number of sex offenders in the 2-4 state under the supervision and control of the division. In this 2-5 subsection, "sex offender" means a person who is released on 2-6 parole or to mandatory supervision after serving a sentence for an 2-7 offense described by Section 8(u)(2). 2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 2-9 applies only to a person who is released on parole or to mandatory 2-10 supervision on or after that date. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.