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                                                                  S.B. No. 396




AN ACT

relating to the interagency exchange of information regarding 
certain offenders with special needs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (c), Section 
614.017, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
		(1)  "Agency" includes any of the following entities 
and individuals, a person with an agency relationship with one of 
the following entities or individuals, and a person who contracts 
with one or more of the following entities or individuals:
			(A)  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and 
the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee;
			(B)  the Board of Pardons and Paroles;                                       
			(C)  the [Texas] Department of State [Mental] 
Health Services [and Mental Retardation];
			(D)  the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;                                
			(E)  the Texas Youth Commission;                                             
			(F)  the Department of Assistive and 
Rehabilitative Services [Texas Rehabilitation Commission];
			(G)  the Texas Education Agency;                                             
			(H)  the [Criminal Justice Policy Council;                  
			[(I)  the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug 
Abuse;     
			[(J)  the] Commission on Jail Standards;                    
			(I) [(K)]  the [Texas] Department of Aging and 
Disability [Human] Services;
			(J) [(L)  the Texas Department on Aging;             
			[(M)]  the Texas School for the Blind and Visually 
Impaired;
			(K) [(N)  the Texas Department of Health;            
			[(O)  the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard 
of Hearing;
			[(P)]  community supervision and corrections 
departments; 
			(L) [(Q)]  personal bond pretrial release offices 
established under Article 17.42, Code of Criminal Procedure;
			(M) [(R)]  local jails regulated by the Commission 
on Jail Standards;
			(N) [(S)]  a municipal or county health 
department;
			(O) [(T)]  a hospital district;                      
			(P) [(U)]  a judge of this state with jurisdiction 
over criminal cases; and
			(Q) [(V)]  an attorney who is appointed or 
retained to represent a special needs offender.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.

                                                                              




______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 396 passed the Senate on 
April 14, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 20, 2005, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 396 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 19, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, 
Nays 0, one present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


______________________________ 
            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor