By Cuellar H.B. No. 818 75R3797 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the elimination of dual supervision of certain persons 1-3 by the pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of 1-4 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 division, for each 1-10 person supervised by the division, at least once each month shall 1-11 inquire of the criminal history record information databases 1-12 maintained by the Department of Public Safety and the Federal 1-13 Bureau of Investigation to determine if the person has been charged 1-14 with an offense or convicted of an offense committed after the 1-15 person was placed under the supervision of the division. 1-16 (b) If the division determines from an inquiry under this 1-17 section that a person supervised by the division is charged with or 1-18 convicted of an offense, the division shall: 1-19 (1) notify the board of that fact; and 1-20 (2) notify the court in which the person is charged or 1-21 has been convicted of the person's supervision status. 1-22 (c) A court that receives information about a person under 1-23 the jurisdiction of the court from the division under Subsection 1-24 (b) shall immediately inform the division as to the disposition 2-1 of any charges against the person, including whether the court has 2-2 placed the person on community supervision and, if so, the period 2-3 of community supervision. 2-4 (d) During any period in which a person described by 2-5 Subsection (c) is under community supervision, the community 2-6 supervision and corrections department shall perform all 2-7 supervision duties relating to the person. The community 2-8 supervision and corrections department shall notify the division 2-9 immediately on revocation of the person's community supervision, or 2-10 not later than the seventh day after the date on which the person 2-11 completes the term of community supervision. The division shall 2-12 resume supervising the person immediately on notification from the 2-13 community supervision and corrections department, unless: 2-14 (1) the period of supervision on parole or mandatory 2-15 supervision has been completed while the person was on community 2-16 supervision; 2-17 (2) the person is ordered confined on revocation of 2-18 community supervision; or 2-19 (3) the person is confined under a warrant issued 2-20 under Section 13. 2-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.