By:  Rudd                                             H.B. No. 1318
       73R2433 CLG-D
                                 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 for any medical or health care
   1-12  services for which the county has not been reimbursed that were
   1-13  provided by the county to the prisoner while the prisoner was
   1-14  confined in the county jail awaiting a parole or mandatory
   1-15  supervision revocation hearing or awaiting transfer to the
   1-16  institutional division following revocation of parole or release on
   1-17  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, determines the prisoner
    2-4  owes for medical or health care services incurred.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
    2-6  only to a prisoner released on parole or to mandatory supervision
    2-7  for an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
    2-8  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
    2-9  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   2-10  before the effective date.
   2-11        (b)  A prisoner released on parole or to mandatory
   2-12  supervision for an offense committed before the effective date of
   2-13  this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was
   2-14  committed, and the former law is continued in effect for this
   2-15  purpose.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-17        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.