By Gutierrez H.B. No. 1050
75R5076 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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, attend psychological counseling sessions of a type and
1-15 for a duration as specified by the parole panel and [may] not:
1-16 (A) communicate directly or indirectly with the
1-17 victim; or
1-18 (B) go to or near the residence, place of
1-19 employment, or business of the victim or to or near a school,
1-20 day-care facility, or similar facility where a dependent child of
1-21 the victim is in attendance.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.