By Gutierrez                                    H.B. No. 1050

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                                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.