Section 56A.507 - Time for Notice(a) The department, the sheriff, or the community supervision and corrections department supervising the defendant, as appropriate: (1) shall make a reasonable attempt to give any notice required by Article 56A.503(a) or 56A.504: (A) not later than the 30th day before the date the defendant:(i) completes the sentence and is released; or(ii) ceases to be electronically monitored as a condition of release; or(B) immediately if the defendant escapes from the correctional facility; and(2) may give the notice by e-mail, if possible.(b) An attempt by the department, the sheriff, or the community supervision and corrections department supervising the defendant to give notice to a victim or witness at the victim's or witness's last known mailing address or, if notice by e-mail is possible, last known e-mail address, as shown on the records of the appropriate department or agency, constitutes a reasonable attempt to give notice under this subchapter.Tex. Code Crim. Proc. § 56A.507
Added by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. TBD,Sec. 1.05, eff. 1/1/2021.