Bill Text: TX HB3387 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to sex offender treatment as a condition of parole or mandatory supervision for certain releasees.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3387 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3387-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3387 | ||
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| relating to sex offender treatment as a condition of parole or | ||
| mandatory supervision for certain releasees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 508, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 508.1862 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 508.1862. SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT. A parole panel | ||
| shall 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 department if: | ||
| (1) the releasee: | ||
| (A) was serving a sentence for an offense under | ||
| Chapter 21, Penal Code; or | ||
| (B) is required to register as a sex offender | ||
| under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure; and | ||
| (2) immediately before release, the releasee is | ||
| participating in a sex offender treatment program established under | ||
| Section 499.054. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 508, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 508.228 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 508.228. SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT. A parole panel may | ||
| 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: | ||
| (1) the releasee: | ||
| (A) was serving a sentence for an offense under | ||
| Chapter 21, Penal Code; or | ||
| (B) is required to register as a sex offender | ||
| under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure; or | ||
| (2) a designated agent of the board after conducting a | ||
| hearing that allows the releasee to contest the evidence, 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. | ||
| SECTION 3. Sections 508.1862 and 508.228, Government Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, apply only to a decision of a parole panel made | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. A decision of a parole | ||
| panel made before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
| law in effect on the date the decision was made, and the former law | ||
| is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3387 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 11, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3387 on May 29, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3387 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
