HBA-MPM H.B. 222 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 222
By: Naishtat
Criminal Jurisprudence
2/10/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, state law authorizes a parole officer to send a person on parole
back to prison and a probation officer to report to a judge that a person
is not obeying the terms of the person's probation. Parole and probation
officers have been subject to retaliatory violence by parolees and
probationers. H.B. 222 adds parole and probation officers to the class of
individuals whose murder is a capital offense. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not delegate  any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer,
department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 19.03, Penal Code, by amending Subsection (a)
and adding Subsection (d), as follows: 

(a)  Provides that a person commits an offense if he commits murder under
Section 19.02(b)(1) against an officer or fireman listed under Subsection
(d).  Makes conforming changes. 

(d)  Makes Subsection (a)(1) applicable for an individual who is a peace
officer, a fireman, a juvenile probation officer, a community supervision
and corrections department officer appointed or employed under Section
76.004, Government Code (Department Director), or a parole officer. 

SECTION 2.  Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3:  Effective date:  September 1, 1999.

SECTION 4.  Emergency clause.