By Ellis S.B. No. 232 76R3688 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the notification of a court on the completion by a 1-3 person convicted by the court of a period of community supervision, 1-4 parole, or mandatory supervision. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 76, Government Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Section 76.020 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 76.020. NOTIFICATION TO COURT OF COMPLETION OF 1-9 SUPERVISION. On completion by a defendant of a period of community 1-10 supervision, the department supervising the defendant promptly 1-11 shall notify the court that placed the defendant on community 1-12 supervision of that fact. 1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter J, Chapter 508, Government Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 508.330 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 508.330. NOTIFICATION TO COURT OF COMPLETION OF 1-16 SUPERVISION. On completion by a releasee of a period of parole or 1-17 mandatory supervision, the department promptly shall notify the 1-18 clerk of the court in which the releasee was convicted of that 1-19 fact. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.