1-1 By: Burnam, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 658 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997; 1-3 April 30, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 15, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: West 1-8 Amend HB 658 by deleting "25" from page 1, line 25 and inserting 1-9 "22" 1-10 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-11 AN ACT 1-12 relating to the county of residence of certain persons released on 1-13 parole or to mandatory supervision after serving sentences for 1-14 sexual offenses. 1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-16 SECTION 1. Section 8A, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal 1-17 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-18 (g) The pardons and paroles division shall, on the first 1-19 working day of each month, notify the sheriff of any county in 1-20 which the total number of sex offenders under the supervision and 1-21 control of the division residing in the county exceeds 10 percent 1-22 of the total number of sex offenders in the state under the 1-23 supervision and control of the division. If the total number of 1-24 sex offenders under the supervision and control of the division 1-25 residing in a county exceeds 25 percent of the total number of sex 1-26 offenders in the state under the supervision and control of the 1-27 division, a parole panel may require a sex offender to reside in 1-28 that county only as required by Subsection (a) or for the reason 1-29 stated in Subsection (b)(2)(B). In this subsection, "sex offender" 1-30 means a person who is released on parole or to mandatory 1-31 supervision after serving a sentence for an offense described by 1-32 Section 8(u)(2). 1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-34 applies only to a person who is released on parole or to mandatory 1-35 supervision on or after that date. 1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-41 * * * * *