By:  Smith                                             H.B. No. 310
       73R1086 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a requirement that the institutional division of the
    1-3  Texas Department of Criminal Justice transport certain persons to
    1-4  halfway houses.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 8, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
    1-7  Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
    1-8        (o)  The institutional division shall immediately transport a
    1-9  prisoner who has been transferred to a halfway house under
   1-10  Subsection (i) of this section.  The institutional division shall
   1-11  deduct from the money the prisoner is entitled to receive under
   1-12  Section 501.015(f), Government Code, the cost the institutional
   1-13  division incurs in transporting the prisoner to the halfway house.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 501.015, Government Code, is amended by
   1-15  amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (f) to read
   1-16  as follows:
   1-17        (a)  When an inmate is discharged or is released on parole,
   1-18  mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon, the institutional
   1-19  division shall provide the inmate with:
   1-20              (1)  suitable civilian clothing;
   1-21              (2)  money held in the inmate's trust account by the
   1-22  director; and
   1-23              (3)  cash, in an amount and in the manner described by
   1-24  Subsection (b) or (f).
    2-1        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (f), when <When> an
    2-2  inmate is discharged or is released on parole, mandatory
    2-3  supervision, or conditional pardon, the inmate is entitled to
    2-4  receive $200 from the institutional division as provided by this
    2-5  subsection.  The department shall give the inmate $100 on
    2-6  discharge.  A parole officer to whom the inmate is required to
    2-7  report by the pardons and paroles division shall give the inmate
    2-8  the remaining $100 if the inmate reports to the officer within the
    2-9  time specified by the board.  If an inmate is released and is not
   2-10  required by the pardons and paroles division to report to a parole
   2-11  officer or is authorized by the pardons and paroles division to
   2-12  report to a location outside this state, the institutional division
   2-13  shall give the inmate $200 on discharge or release.
   2-14        (f)  If an inmate is transported to a halfway house under
   2-15  Section 8(o), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, the inmate
   2-16  is entitled to receive $200, less the cost of transportation, from
   2-17  the institutional division on the date the inmate reports to the
   2-18  halfway house.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   2-20  to a person who is transferred to a halfway house by the
   2-21  institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   2-22  on or after the effective date of this Act.  A person who is
   2-23  transferred by the institutional division before the effective date
   2-24  of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the date the person
   2-25  was transferred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   2-26  purpose.
   2-27        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    3-1        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.