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.