By Hochberg                                            H.B. No. 215
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the conditions of release on bond for a defendant
 1-3     charged with the offense of stalking.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 17.46, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A magistrate may require as a condition of release on
 1-8     bond that a defendant charged with an offense under Section 42.072,
 1-9     Penal Code, may not:
1-10                 (1)  communicate directly or indirectly with the
1-11     victim; or
1-12                 (2)  go to or near the residence, school, place of
1-13     employment, or business of the victim or to or near a school,
1-14     day-care facility, or similar facility where a dependent child of
1-15     the victim is in attendance.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.