By Merritt H.B. No. 2027 76R2781 PAM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duty of a person placed on community supervision 1-3 for certain offenses to make disclosure to the landlord of the 1-4 property where the person resides; providing a penalty. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 11A to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 11A. RESIDENTIAL DISCLOSURE REQUIRED AS CONDITION OF 1-9 COMMUNITY SUPERVISION IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. (a) This section 1-10 applies only to persons placed on community supervision for an 1-11 offense relating to the manufacture, delivery, possession, or use 1-12 of a controlled substance under Chapter 481, Health and Safety 1-13 Code. 1-14 (b) In addition to other conditions imposed by a judge under 1-15 this article, the judge shall require as a condition of community 1-16 supervision that a person subject to this section disclose the 1-17 nature of the crime for which the person was placed on community 1-18 supervision and the person's name and address to any landlord of 1-19 the property where the person resides or the landlord's agent. 1-20 (c) The person shall disclose the required information to 1-21 the landlord or the landlord's agent immediately after the person 1-22 is placed on community supervision. 1-23 (d) A person commits an offense if the person fails to 1-24 disclose information as required by this section. An offense under 2-1 this subsection is a Class B misdemeanor. 2-2 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-3 (b) This Act applies only to persons who are placed on 2-4 community supervision on or after the effective date of this Act. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.