By: Culberson H.B. No. 2353
72S40019 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to security measures concerning certain inmates released
1-3 from prison on parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon
1-4 and residing in certain halfway houses and to the distribution of
1-5 gate money to inmates on release from prison.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-8 amended by adding Section 28 to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 28. Each halfway house under contract with the board
1-10 under Section 8(i) of this article shall provide to a person who
1-11 resides in the halfway house transportation for any purpose for
1-12 which the person is authorized to leave the halfway house. A
1-13 halfway house may not satisfy the requirements of this section by
1-14 providing a resident with money for public transportation.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 501.015(b), Government Code, is amended
1-16 to read as follows:
1-17 (b) When an inmate is discharged or is released on parole,
1-18 mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon, the inmate is
1-19 entitled to receive $200 from the institutional division as
1-20 provided by this subsection. <The department shall give the inmate
1-21 $100 on discharge.> A parole officer to whom the inmate is
1-22 required to report by the pardons and paroles division shall give
1-23 the inmate $200 <the remaining $100> if the inmate reports to the
1-24 officer at the district parole office the officer is assigned to
2-1 or, if applicable, the halfway house the inmate is transferred to
2-2 under Section 8(i), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure,
2-3 within the time specified by the board. If an inmate is released
2-4 and is not required by the pardons and paroles division to report
2-5 to a parole officer or is authorized by the pardons and paroles
2-6 division to report to a location outside this state, the
2-7 institutional division shall give the inmate $200 on discharge or
2-8 release.
2-9 SECTION 3. The changes made to Section 501.015(b),
2-10 Government Code, by this Act apply only to an inmate who is
2-11 discharged or is released on parole, mandatory supervision, or
2-12 conditional pardon on or after the effective date of this Act. An
2-13 inmate who is discharged or released before the effective date of
2-14 this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
2-15 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
2-16 this purpose.
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,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.