SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM or upon adjournment,
             Tuesday, May 13, 1997

PLACE: E1.012

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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To take up and consider:


SCR 44            Sibley / et al.
Encouraging the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, Texas Youth Commission,
Juvenile Probation Commission, county commissioners, and sheriffs to
support faith-based correctional programming and facilities.

HB 115            Tillery / et al.         SP: Shapiro
Relating to the failure of certain persons to attend a court
hearing involving a child; providing a criminal penalty.

HB 279            West, George "Buddy"     SP: Duncan
Relating to a requirement that inmates of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice participate in work and educational programs.

HB 312            Place                    SP: Whitmire
Relating to the offense of tampering with a witness.

HB 658            Burnam                   SP: Moncrief
Relating to the county of residence of certain persons released on
parole or to mandatory supervision after serving sentences for
sexual offenses.

HB 818            Cuellar                  SP: Patterson, Jerry
Relating to a study of the incidence of dual supervision of certain
persons by the pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice and community supervision and corrections
departments.

HB 1070            Van de Putte             SP: Madla
Relating to drug regulation and enforcement under the Texas
Controlled Substances Act and to the authority of certain state
agencies under that Act and to certain penalties for the use of a
controlled substance to commit the offense; imposing criminal
penalties.

HB 1150            Greenberg                SP: Shapiro
Relating to the notification of school personnel of the arrest or
detention of a student and any subsequent disposition of that
arrest or detention.

HB 1238            Junell                   SP: Duncan
Relating to the appointment of a public defender by the
Commissioners Court of Tom Green County.

HB 1301            Allen                    SP: Whitmire
Relating to the oversight of the private sector prison industries
program.

HB 2082            Hightower                SP: West, Royce
Relating to the authority of the Texas Youth Commission to sell or
license the right to use a treatment program developed by the
commission.

HB 2561            Gallego                  SP: Moncrief
Relating to the administration of the Sexual Assault Prevention and
Crisis Service.

HB 2827            Place                    SP: Duncan
Relating to procedures applicable to an investigation involving the
death of an inmate in the custody of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice or imprisoned in a facility operated by or under
contract with the department.

HB 2918            Place                    SP: Whitmire
Relating to the extension of a period of supervision under
community supervision for a defendant charged with  or convicted of
certain sexual or sexually assaultive offenses, to the publication
of notice under the sex offender registration program, and to the
classification of inmates in the custody of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice on the basis of need for treatment.

Pending business:


HB 195            Turner, Bob              SP: Carona
Relating to the punishment of theft committed against elderly
individuals.

HB 237            Goolsby                  SP: Ellis
Relating to the prosecution of failure to return public library
property as theft of service.

HB 438            Alvarado                 SP: Whitmire
Relating to the implementation of a controlled substances testing
program to be administered to inmates housed in facilities operated
by or under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

HB 1233            Kubiak                   SP: Gallegos
Relating to the offense of furnishing alcohol to a minor.

HB 2825            Place                    SP: Patterson, Jerry
Relating to the use of inmate and probationer labor for state
highway system projects.

HB 2830            Place                    SP: Bivins
Relating to a statutory lien to secure the amount of restitution to
which a crime victim is entitled.

HB 3062            Hightower                SP: Whitmire
Relating to comprehensive revisions to Subchapter B, Chapter 56,
Code of Criminal Procedure, the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.

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