1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to conditions of parole or mandatory supervision for an
1-3 inmate released after serving a sentence for the offense of
1-4 stalking.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Subsection (o), Section 8,
1-7 Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Senate
1-8 Bill No. 97, Acts of the 75th Legislature, 1997, is amended to read
1-9 as follows:
1-10 (o)(1) In addition to other conditions imposed by a parole
1-11 panel under this article, the parole panel may require as a
1-12 condition of parole or release to mandatory supervision that an
1-13 inmate serving a sentence for an offense under Section 42.072,
1-14 Penal Code:
1-15 (A) attend psychological counseling sessions of
1-16 a type and for a duration as specified by the parole panel, if the
1-17 parole panel determines in consultation with a local mental health
1-18 services provider that appropriate mental health services are
1-19 available through the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-20 Retardation in accordance with Section 534.053, Health and Safety
1-21 Code, or through another mental health services provider; and
1-22 (B) [, may] not:
1-23 (i) [(A)] communicate directly or
1-24 indirectly with the victim; or
2-1 (ii) [(B)] go to or near the residence,
2-2 place of employment, or business of the victim or to or near a
2-3 school, day-care facility, or similar facility where a dependent
2-4 child of the victim is in attendance.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1050 was passed by the House on March
26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1050 was passed by the Senate on May
8, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor