TITLE: Relating to monitoring the Internet access of certain high-risk sex offenders who are released on parole or to mandatory supervision.

SUMMARY: Relating to monitoring the Internet access of certain high-risk sex offenders who are released on parole or to mandatory supervision.

FULL TEXT:
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.