By: Parker S.B. No. 338 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to authorizing as a condition of parole or release to 1-2 mandatory supervision for certain releasees that the releasees 1-3 submit to treatment or counseling for substance abuse. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (g), Section 8, Article 42.18, Code of 1-6 Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (g) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice may adopt such other 1-8 reasonable rules not inconsistent with law as it may deem proper or 1-9 necessary with respect to the eligibility of prisoners for parole 1-10 and mandatory supervision, the conduct of parole and mandatory 1-11 supervision hearings, or conditions to be imposed upon parolees and 1-12 persons released to mandatory supervision. Each person to be 1-13 released on parole shall be furnished a contract setting forth in 1-14 clear and intelligible language the conditions and rules of parole. 1-15 The parole panel may include as a condition of parole or mandatory 1-16 supervision any condition that a court may impose on a probationer 1-17 under Article 42.12 of this code, including the condition that the 1-18 person released submit to testing for controlled substances or 1-19 submit to electronic monitoring if the parole panel determines that 1-20 absent testing for controlled substances or participation in an 1-21 electronic monitoring program the person would not be released on 1-22 parole. Acceptance, signing, and execution of the contract by the 1-23 inmate to be paroled shall be a precondition to release on parole. 1-24 Persons released on mandatory supervision shall be furnished a 2-1 written statement setting forth in clear and intelligible language 2-2 the conditions and rules of mandatory supervision. The parole 2-3 panel may also require as a condition of parole or release to 2-4 mandatory supervision that the person make payments in satisfaction 2-5 of damages the person is liable for under Article 6184p, Revised 2-6 Statutes. The parole panel shall require as a condition of parole 2-7 or mandatory supervision that the person register under Article 2-8 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes. The parole panel may require as a 2-9 condition of parole or release to mandatory supervision that the 2-10 person attend counseling sessions for substance abusers or 2-11 participate in substance abuse treatment services in a program or 2-12 facility approved or licensed by the Texas Commission on Alcohol 2-13 and Drug Abuse if the person was sentenced for an offense involving 2-14 controlled substances or the panel determines that the defendant's 2-15 substance abuse was connected to the commission of the offense. 2-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-17 SECTION 3. 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.