Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56A.503 · Subchapter K. NOTIFICATION BY CERTAIN ENTITIES OF RELEASE OR ESCAPE
NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE OR ESCAPE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department or sheriff, whichever has custody of a defendant in the case of a felony, or the sheriff in the case of a misdemeanor, shall notify a victim of the offense or a witness who testified against the defendant at the trial for the offense, other than a witness who testified in the course and scope of the witness's official or professional duties, when a defendant convicted of an offense described by Article 56A.502:
(1) completes the defendant's sentence and is released; or
(2) escapes from a correctional facility.
(b) If the department is required by Subsection (a) to give notice to a victim or witness, the department shall also give notice to local law enforcement officials in the county in which the victim or witness resides.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 469 (H.B. 4173), Sec. 1.05, eff. January 1, 2021.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.56A.htm
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Code of Criminal Procedure
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Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56A.504NOTIFICATION REGARDING DEFENDANT SUBJECT TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING.Printed as Article 56A.503(a)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56A.505NOTIFICATION OF RIGHT TO NOTICE.Printed as Article 56A.503(a)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56A.507TIME FOR NOTICE.Printed as Article 56A.503(a) or 56A.504
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