By Farrar                                              H.B. No. 999
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the receipt or disclosure of information relating to
 1-3     offenders with special needs.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 614.017(c)(2), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (2)  "Special needs offender" means a convicted
 1-8     individual [felon] or an individual who is placed on community
 1-9     supervision after a grant of deferred adjudication under Section 5,
1-10     Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.