BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 3387 |
By: Krause |
Corrections |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties note that current law allows the Board of Pardons and Paroles to impose certain special conditions on sex offenders supervised by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice but that the statutes do not explicitly state as a condition of release to parole or mandatory supervision that a sex offender participate in a sex offender treatment program. These parties contend that a parole panel should be able to require such participation. C.S.H.B. 3387 seeks to address this issue.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 3387 amends the Government Code to require a parole panel to require as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision that a releasee participate in a sex offender treatment program developed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if the releasee was serving a sentence for a Penal Code sexual offense or is required to register as a sex offender and if immediately before release the releasee is participating in a sex offender treatment program.
C.S.H.B. 3387 authorizes a parole panel to require as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision that a releasee participate in a sex offender treatment program as specified by the parole panel if the releasee was serving a sentence for a Penal Code sexual offense or is required to register as a sex offender or if a designated agent of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, on evidence that a sex offense occurred during the commission of the offense for which the releasee was serving a sentence, makes an affirmative finding that, regardless of the offense for which the releasee was serving a sentence, the releasee constitutes a threat to society because of the releasee's lack of sexual control.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2015.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 3387 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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