By Cuellar, Dukes H.B. No. 818 75R10371 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a study of the incidence of dual supervision of certain 1-3 persons by the pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department 1-4 of Criminal Justice and community supervision and corrections 1-5 departments. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-8 amended by adding Section 30 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 30. DUAL SUPERVISION. (a) The department, using data 1-10 included in the community supervision tracking system and other 1-11 information available to the department, shall determine the number 1-12 of persons who at any time during the period beginning on September 1-13 1, 1997, and ending on August 31, 1998, are under the supervision 1-14 of both the division and a community supervision and corrections 1-15 department. 1-16 (b) The department shall determine: 1-17 (1) the number of those persons described by 1-18 Subsection (a) who are supervised by a community supervision and 1-19 corrections department following a grant of deferred adjudication 1-20 for a misdemeanor or a conviction of a misdemeanor; and 1-21 (2) the number of those persons described by 1-22 Subsection (a) who are supervised by a community supervision and 1-23 corrections department following a grant of deferred adjudication 1-24 for a felony or a conviction of a felony. 2-1 (c) For each person determined by the department to be under 2-2 dual supervision by the division and a community supervision and 2-3 corrections department, the department shall determine: 2-4 (1) the duration of the period of supervision by the 2-5 division to which the person is subject; 2-6 (2) the duration of the period of supervision by the 2-7 community supervision and corrections department to which the 2-8 person is subject; and 2-9 (3) the duration of the period of dual supervision to 2-10 which the person is subject. 2-11 (d) In addition to making the determinations described by 2-12 Subsections (b) and (c), the department shall determine the 2-13 geographic distribution of incidents of dual supervision, including 2-14 determining whether a difference in the number of incidents of dual 2-15 supervision may be attributable to whether the person supervised 2-16 resides in an urban area or a rural area and determining whether 2-17 certain counties have a disproportionate percentage of incidents of 2-18 dual supervision. 2-19 (e) The department shall report its findings to the 2-20 legislature and to the Sunset Advisory Commission not later than 2-21 December 1, 1998. 2-22 (f) This section expires January 1, 1999. 2-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.