By: Greenberg H.B. No. 92
73R1242 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility for release on parole of a prisoner
1-3 serving a life sentence for a capital felony.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 8(b)(2), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (2) A <If a> prisoner <is> serving a life sentence for
1-8 a capital felony<, the prisoner> is not eligible for <release on>
1-9 parole <until the actual calendar time the prisoner has served,
1-10 without consideration of good conduct time, equals 35 calendar
1-11 years>.
1-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-13 8(b)(2), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies only to
1-14 a defendant convicted of a capital offense committed on or after
1-15 the effective date of this Act. For the purposes of this section,
1-16 an offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if
1-17 any element of the offense occurs before the effective date. A
1-18 defendant convicted of a capital offense committed before the
1-19 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-20 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
1-21 for this purpose.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.