By: Junell H.B. No. 1003
73R4912 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the payment of discharge money to and the
1-3 transportation of inmates released from the institutional division
1-4 of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 501.015(b), Government Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (b) When an inmate is discharged or is released on parole,
1-9 mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon, the inmate is
1-10 entitled to receive $50 <$200> from the institutional division and
1-11 transportation by the institutional division to the location at
1-12 which the inmate is required to report to a parole officer <as
1-13 provided by this subsection. The department shall give the inmate
1-14 $100 on discharge. A parole officer to whom the inmate is required
1-15 to report> by the pardons and paroles division <shall give the
1-16 inmate the remaining $100 if the inmate reports to the officer
1-17 within the time specified by the board>. If an inmate is released
1-18 and is not required by the pardons and paroles division to report
1-19 to a parole officer or is authorized by the pardons and paroles
1-20 division to report to a location outside this state, the
1-21 institutional division shall provide the inmate with transportation
1-22 to:
1-23 (1) the location of the inmate's residence, if the
1-24 residence is in this state; or
2-1 (2) a transit point determined appropriate by the
2-2 institutional division, if the inmate's residence is outside of
2-3 this state or the inmate is required by the pardons and paroles
2-4 division to report to a location outside of this state <give the
2-5 inmate $200 on discharge or release>.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.