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.