82R2210 KCR-D
By: Parker H.B. No. 3455
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to monitoring the Internet access of certain high-risk sex
offenders who are released on parole or to mandatory supervision.
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. MONITORING OF COMPUTER USE FOR CERTAIN SEX
OFFENDERS. (a) This section applies only to a releasee to whom the
department assigns a risk level of "high" under Section 493.0151.
(b) A parole panel shall require as a condition of parole or
mandatory supervision that a releasee described by Subsection (a)
submit to the monitoring of each computer or other electronic
device regularly used by the releasee to access the Internet.
(c) The parole panel may modify at any time a condition
imposed under this section if the condition interferes with the
releasee's ability to attend school or become or remain employed
and consequently constitutes an undue hardship for the releasee.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a person who is released on parole or to mandatory supervision on
or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.