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2025 · Regular session · Senate bill

SB1021

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Official caption: Relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision of a person convicted of stalking and to the offense of improper contact with the person's victim.

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SB1021 removes ordinary judge-ordered community supervision after a stalking conviction and extends the improper-victim-contact offense to people confined after being charged with or convicted of stalking.
This is not a ban on every route to community supervision: SB1021 does not add stalking to the separate restrictions on jury-recommended supervision or deferred adjudication, where a judge postpones a finding of guilt.
The contact rule covers letters, calls and other direct or third-party contact with the victim or the victim’s family while the person is confined.
The governor signed SB1021 June 20, 2025.

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What does it do?

SB1021 removes ordinary judge-ordered community supervision after a stalking conviction and extends the improper-victim-contact offense to people confined after being charged with or convicted of stalking. Community supervision is supervision in the community under court-imposed conditions rather than serving the suspended sentence in confinement. The sentencing change adds stalking to Article 42A.054(a)’s list of offenses excluded from Article 42A.053. Final law, sections 1 and 4; CR 42A.053 (2025-01-01).

This is not a ban on every route to community supervision. SB1021 does not add stalking to the separate restrictions on jury-recommended supervision or deferred adjudication, where a judge postpones a finding of guilt. Those routes retain their own eligibility conditions; they are not guaranteed. Final law; CR 42A.055 (2025-01-01); CR 42A.056 (2025-01-01); CR 42A.101 (2025-01-01); CR 42A.102 (2025-01-01).

The contact rule covers letters, calls and other direct or third-party contact with the victim or the victim’s family while the person is confined. The existing consent procedure remains: before contact, the facility director must receive written, dated consent and give the confined person a copy. Consent comes from the victim if the victim was at least 17 when the underlying offense occurred. If younger then, the listed alternatives are a parent, legal guardian, the victim once at least 17, or a family member at least 17. The confined person cannot supply the required written consent. The unchanged affirmative defense covers indirect contact through the confined person’s attorney solely for representation in a criminal proceeding. The offense is normally a Class A misdemeanor, but a third-degree felony when the person is confined after conviction of a covered felony. Final law, section 4; PE 38.111 (2025-01-01), subsections (b)–(e).

The governor signed SB1021 June 20, 2025. It took effect September 1, 2025, and applies only to offenses committed on or after that date. If any element occurred earlier, the former law governs. History; Final law, sections 5–6.

What changed along the way?

The introduced and Senate committee versions contained the supervision restriction and two emergency-medical-services cross-reference corrections. Senator Perry offered the sole indexed floor amendment, adopted April 1, adding stalking to the improper-contact statute. Its complete text survives as final section 4; the engrossed, House committee and enrolled operative texts match. Text versions; Amendment index; Perry amendment; Final law.

The EMS certification and provider-license provisions change a reference from Article 42A.054(a)(17) to (18) to follow the same drug-offense provision after renumbering. These edits do not themselves add stalking to those particular enumerated EMS licensing lists. Final law, sections 1–3; CR 42A.054 (2025-01-01); HS 773.0614 (2025-04-01); HS 773.06141 (2025-04-01).

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

People convicted of stalking lose the ordinary judge-ordered supervision option. Adding stalking to Article 42A.054(a) also brings it within the cross-referenced parole rule: ordinarily, eligibility requires actual time served equal to half the sentence or 30 years, whichever is less, with a two-year minimum and no good-conduct-time credit toward that threshold. Eligibility is not a promise of release, and other sentence-specific rules can apply. Mandatory supervision is governed by a separate exclusion list; the act is not a blanket ban on all release before a sentence ends. Final law; GV 508.145 (2025-09-02), subsection (d); GV 508.149 (2025-09-02).

The contact change gives stalking victims and their families an additional criminal-law protection against unauthorized contact from a confined person. It does not prove that stalking or unwanted contact will decline. The state expects more demand for confinement, while local costs depend on enforcement, prosecution, supervision and confinement. Final law; April 29 fiscal note.

The fiscal notes project $135,428 in net general-revenue savings across fiscal years 2026–2027—just $25 in 2026 and $135,403 in 2027—followed by annual net costs of $3,025,291 in 2028, $8,521,240 in 2029 and $14,107,707 in 2030. Initial savings reflect less community supervision before additional prison admissions occur. The model uses 163 people placed on supervision for stalking in 2024, $86.50 per adult prison day, and state supervision costs of $2.44 per felony day or $0.70 per misdemeanor day. These are model inputs, not new fees or guaranteed savings. The act makes no appropriation, and local fiscal effects could not be determined. April 29 fiscal note; March 18 revised fiscal note.

The criminal-justice impact statements project additional demand for state prison beds of 0 in 2026–2027, 105 in 2028, 284 in 2029 and 462 in 2030. These are projected capacity needs, not annual new-conviction totals or beds funded by the bill. Introduced impact statement; Engrossed impact statement.

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