By Rudd H.B. No. 1318 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement as a condition of release on parole or to 1-3 mandatory supervision that certain inmates reimburse counties for 1-4 medical or health care services provided to the inmates. 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)(1) In addition to other conditions of parole and release 1-9 on mandatory supervision imposed under this section, a parole panel 1-10 shall require a prisoner released on parole or to mandatory 1-11 supervision to reimburse a county, according to the prisoner's 1-12 ability to pay, for any medical or health care services for which 1-13 the county has not been reimbursed that were provided by the county 1-14 to the prisoner while the prisoner was confined in the county jail 1-15 awaiting a parole or mandatory supervision revocation hearing or 1-16 awaiting transfer to the institutional division following 1-17 revocation of parole or release on mandatory supervision. 1-18 (2) If a county provides medical or health care 1-19 services to a prisoner described by Subdivision (1) of this 1-20 subsection, the sheriff shall submit to the board an account of 1-21 medical or health care expenses incurred by the county for the 1-22 prisoner for which the county has not been reimbursed. The Texas 1-23 Board of Criminal Justice by rule shall adopt procedures for a 1-24 prisoner to contest the charges submitted by a sheriff under this 2-1 subsection. The parole panel shall require a prisoner to reimburse 2-2 a county the amount of money the board, after following department 2-3 procedures adopted under this subsection and after reviewing the 2-4 prisoner's ability to pay, determines the prisoner owes for medical 2-5 or health care services incurred. 2-6 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 2-7 only to a prisoner released on parole or to mandatory supervision 2-8 for an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 2-9 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 2-10 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 2-11 before the effective date. 2-12 (b) A prisoner released on parole or to mandatory 2-13 supervision for an offense committed before the effective date of 2-14 this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was 2-15 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for this 2-16 purpose. 2-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.