Bill Text: TX HB1003 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the prepayment of taxes on heavy equipment that is subject to a lease or rental.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB1003 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1003-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Bolton, Herrero, Moody H.B. No. 1003
        (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2009;
  May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
  Justice; May 20, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 20, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to notice provided to certain victims or witnesses
  regarding certain inmates or defendants who are electronically
  monitored.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 56.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (d),
  (e), and (f) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, in the case
  of an inmate released on parole or to mandatory supervision
  following a term of imprisonment for an offense described by
  Subsection (c), or a community supervision and corrections
  department supervising a defendant, in the case of a defendant
  convicted of an offense described by Subsection (c) and
  subsequently released on community supervision, shall notify a
  victim or witness described by Subsection (a) whenever the inmate
  or defendant, if subject to electronic monitoring as a condition of
  release, ceases to be electronically monitored.
         (d)  It is the responsibility of a victim or witness desiring
  notification of the defendant's release to provide the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice, [or] the sheriff, or the community
  supervision and corrections department supervising the defendant,
  as appropriate, with the e-mail address, mailing address, and
  telephone number of the victim, witness, or other person through
  whom the victim or witness may be contacted and to notify the
  appropriate department or the sheriff of any change of address or
  telephone number of the victim, witness, or other
  person.  Information obtained and maintained by the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice, [or] a sheriff, or a community
  supervision and corrections department under this subsection is
  privileged and confidential.
         (e)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, [or] the
  sheriff, or the community supervision and corrections department
  supervising the defendant, as appropriate:
               (1)  shall make a reasonable attempt to give any notice
  required by Subsection (a) or (a-1):
                     (A)  not later than the 30th day before the date
  the defendant completes the sentence and is released or ceases to be
  electronically monitored as a condition of release; or
                     (B)  immediately if the defendant escapes from the
  correctional facility; and
               (2)  may give any notice required by Subsection (a) or
  (a-1) by e-mail, if possible.
         (f)  An attempt by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,
  [or] the sheriff, or the community supervision and corrections
  department supervising the defendant to give notice to a victim or
  witness at the victim's or witness's last known mailing address or,
  if notice via e-mail is possible, last known e-mail address, as
  shown on the records of the appropriate department or agency,
  constitutes a reasonable attempt to give notice under this article.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to the notice regarding an inmate or defendant who is ordered, on or
  after the effective date of this Act, to submit to electronic
  monitoring as a condition of release. A notice regarding an inmate
  or defendant who was ordered before the effective date of this Act
  to submit to electronic monitoring as a condition of release is
  governed by the law in effect at the time the defendant was ordered
  to submit to electronic monitoring, and the previous law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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