1-1     By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)              H.B. No. 1667

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the

 1-9     performance of certain officers of community supervision and

1-10     corrections departments.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 76.006, Government Code, is amended by

1-13     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

1-14           (f)  A document evaluating the performance of an officer of

1-15     the department who supervises defendants placed on community

1-16     supervision is confidential.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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