SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  8:30AM, Tuesday, April 29, 1997

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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To take up and consider:

SB 12            Luna, Gregory
Relating to the certification of certain police officers as special
officers for mental health assignment.

SB 1220            Patterson, Jerry
Relating to the use of inmate and probationer labor for state
highway system projects.

SB 1232            Shapiro
Relating to conditions for probation, release under supervision,
and determinate sentence parole for a child adjudicated for
engaging in certain delinquent conduct.

SB 1237            West, Royce
Relating to the qualifications required for appointment as a
community supervision and corrections department officer.

SB 1238            West, Royce
Relating to the issuance of and withdrawal of a warrant for the
return to confinement  of certain inmates released to the
supervision of the pardons and paroles division of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice.

SB 1835            Shapiro
Relating to the punishment for the offense of unlawful restraint
and the requirement that certain defendants convicted of that
offense be required to register as sex offenders.

HB 311            Place                    SP: Patterson, Jerry
Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses involving firearms,
illegal knives, clubs, or prohibited weapons.

HB 485            McClendon                SP: Nelson
Relating to requiring that an out-of-state inmate housed in a
correctional facility in this state be returned to the sending
state before the inmate's release from imprisonment.

HB 749            Dunnam                   SP: Sibley
Relating to the discharge of criminal proceedings because of delay
in prosecution.

HB 1050            Gutierrez                SP: Moncrief
Relating to conditions of parole or mandatory supervision for an
inmate released after serving a sentence for the offense of
stalking.

HB 1155            Hightower                SP: Brown
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Criminal Justice
Policy Council.

HB 1386            Gray                     SP: Brown
Relating to the continuation and the functions of the Board of
Pardons and Paroles.

HB 1545            Finnell                  SP: Haywood
Relating to pleas entered by a minor and the issuance of a summons
to compel the appearance of the minor's parent in justice or
municipal court.

HB 2826            Place                    SP: West, Royce
Relating to the qualifications required for appointment as a
community supervision and corrections department officer.

Pending business:

SB 108            Cain
Relating to conditions of community supervision, parole, and
mandatory supervision for certain violent offenders.

SB 279            Patterson, Jerry
Relating to the prevention of horse theft.

SB 612            Harris
Relating to a defense to prosecution for abandoning or endangering
a child.

SB 1011            Madla
Relating to drug regulation and enforcement under the Texas
Controlled Substances Act and to the authority of certain state
agencies under that Act;  imposing criminal penalties.

SB 1523            Lucio
Relating to the manner in which grand jurors are selected.

SB 1738            Armbrister
Relating to the assessment of punishment in criminal proceedings.

SB 1827            Shapleigh
Relating to characteristics of a defendant that may not be used by
a judge or jury to deny community supervision, and to
characteristics of a defendant that may not be used by a prosecutor
to urge a judge or jury to deny community supervision.

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