1-1 By: Gutierrez, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 1050
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 1, 1997;
1-3 April 2, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; April 30, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 30, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to conditions of parole or mandatory supervision for an
1-9 inmate released after serving a sentence for the offense of
1-10 stalking.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Subsection (o), Section 8,
1-13 Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Senate
1-14 Bill No. 97, Acts of the 75th Legislature, 1997, is amended to read
1-15 as follows:
1-16 (o)(1) In addition to other conditions imposed by a parole
1-17 panel under this article, the parole panel may require as a
1-18 condition of parole or release to mandatory supervision that an
1-19 inmate serving a sentence for an offense under Section 42.072,
1-20 Penal Code:
1-21 (A) attend psychological counseling sessions of
1-22 a type and for a duration as specified by the parole panel, if the
1-23 parole panel determines in consultation with a local mental health
1-24 services provider that appropriate mental health services are
1-25 available through the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-26 Retardation in accordance with Section 534.053, Health and Safety
1-27 Code, or through another mental health services provider; and
1-28 (B) [, may] not:
1-29 (i) [(A)] communicate directly or
1-30 indirectly with the victim; or
1-31 (ii) [(B)] go to or near the residence,
1-32 place of employment, or business of the victim or to or near a
1-33 school, day-care facility, or similar facility where a dependent
1-34 child of the victim is in attendance.
1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41 passage, and it is so enacted.
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