Bill Text: TX HB3387 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to sex offender treatment as a condition of parole or mandatory supervision for certain releasees.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3387 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3387-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to sex offender treatment as a condition of parole or mandatory supervision for certain releasees.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3387 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3387-Comm_Sub.html
By: Krause, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) | H.B. No. 3387 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2015; | ||
May 13, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 22, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 22, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3387 | By: Whitmire |
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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. | ||
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