By Moncrief                                            S.B. No. 638
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the offense of violation of a condition
 1-3     of community supervision, parole, or release on mandatory
 1-4     supervision.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 38, Penal Code, is amended by adding
 1-7     Section 38.112 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 38.112.  VIOLATION BY SEX OFFENDER OF CONDITION OF
 1-9     RELEASE.  (a)  A person commits an offense if the person:
1-10                 (1)  is required to register as a sex offender under
1-11     Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 668,
1-12     Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-13                 (2)  is under the supervision of a community
1-14     supervision and corrections department or the pardons and paroles
1-15     division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; and
1-16                 (3)  violates a condition of community supervision,
1-17     parole, or release on mandatory supervision that directly relates
1-18     to the person's status as a sex offender.
1-19           (b)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
1-20     degree.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.