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      By Merritt                                      H.B. No. 1273

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the duty of a person placed on community supervision

 1-3     for certain offenses to make disclosure to the landlord of the

 1-4     property where the person resides; providing a penalty.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 11A to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 11A.  RESIDENTIAL DISCLOSURE REQUIRED AS CONDITION OF

 1-9     COMMUNITY SUPERVISION IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.  (a)  This section

1-10     applies only to persons placed on community supervision for an

1-11     offense relating to the manufacture, delivery, possession, or use

1-12     of a  controlled substance under Chapter 481, Health and Safety

1-13     Code.

1-14           (b)  In addition to other conditions imposed by a judge under

1-15     this article, the judge shall require as a condition of community

1-16     supervision that a person subject to this section disclose the

1-17     nature of the crime for which the person was placed on community

1-18     supervision and the person's name and address to any landlord of

1-19     the property where the person resides or the landlord's agent.

1-20           (c)  The person shall disclose the required information to

1-21     the landlord or the landlord's agent immediately after the person

1-22     is placed on community supervision.

1-23           (d)  A person commits an offense if the person fails to

1-24     disclose information as required by this section.  An offense under

 2-1     this subsection is a Class B misdemeanor.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-3           (b)  This Act applies only to persons who are placed on

 2-4     community supervision on or after the effective date of this Act.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  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.