By Merritt                                            H.B. No. 2027
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                                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.