By: Smith, Dalton H.B. No. 312 73R1088 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the assignment of staff to district parole offices. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 28 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 28. The director shall staff each district parole 1-7 office so that the percentage of the division's parole officers and 1-8 support staff working at the office is equal to the percentage of 1-9 inmates who are released from the institutional division on parole 1-10 or mandatory supervision to the area served by the office. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.