By:  Jones, Jesse                                      H.B. No. 686
       73R3428 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the eligibility for parole of defendants convicted of
    1-3  sexual assault or indecency with a child involving contact.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 8(b)(3), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7              (3)  If a prisoner is serving a sentence for an offense
    1-8  under Section 21.11(a)(1) or Section 22.011, Penal Code, or the
    1-9  offenses listed in Subdivision (1)(B), (C), or (D) of Section
   1-10  3g(a), Article 42.12 of this code, or if the judgment contains an
   1-11  affirmative finding under Subdivision (2) of Subsection (a) of
   1-12  Section 3g of that article, he is not eligible for release on
   1-13  parole until his actual calendar time served, without consideration
   1-14  of good conduct time, equals one-fourth of the maximum sentence or
   1-15  15 calendar years, whichever is less, but in no event shall he be
   1-16  eligible for release on parole in less than two calendar years.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-18  to a defendant convicted of an offense committed on or after the
   1-19  effective date of this Act.  For the purposes of this section, an
   1-20  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-21  element of the offense occurs before the effective date.  A
   1-22  defendant convicted of an offense committed before the effective
   1-23  date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
   1-24  was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for this
    2-1  purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.