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.

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