By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 338
       73R1098 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring as a condition of parole or release to
    1-3  mandatory supervision for certain releasees that the releasees
    1-4  submit to treatment or counseling for substance abuse.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 8(g), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
    1-7  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (g)  The Texas Board of Criminal Justice may adopt such other
    1-9  reasonable rules not inconsistent with law as it may deem proper or
   1-10  necessary with respect to the eligibility of prisoners for parole
   1-11  and mandatory supervision, the conduct of parole and mandatory
   1-12  supervision hearings, or conditions to be imposed upon parolees and
   1-13  persons released to mandatory supervision.  Each person to be
   1-14  released on parole shall be furnished a contract setting forth in
   1-15  clear and intelligible language the conditions and rules of parole.
   1-16  The parole panel may include as a condition of parole or mandatory
   1-17  supervision any condition that a court may impose on a probationer
   1-18  under Article 42.12 of this code, including the condition that the
   1-19  person released submit to testing for controlled substances or
   1-20  submit to electronic monitoring if the parole panel determines that
   1-21  absent testing for controlled substances or participation in an
   1-22  electronic monitoring program the person would not be released on
   1-23  parole.  Acceptance, signing, and execution of the contract by the
   1-24  inmate to be paroled shall be a precondition to release on parole.
    2-1  Persons released on mandatory supervision shall be furnished a
    2-2  written statement setting forth in clear and intelligible language
    2-3  the conditions and rules of mandatory supervision.  The parole
    2-4  panel may also require as a condition of parole or release to
    2-5  mandatory supervision that the person make payments in satisfaction
    2-6  of damages the person is liable for under Article 6184p, Revised
    2-7  Statutes.  The parole panel shall require as a condition of parole
    2-8  or mandatory supervision that the person register under Article
    2-9  6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes.  The parole panel shall require as a
   2-10  condition of parole or release to mandatory supervision that the
   2-11  person attend counseling sessions for substance abusers or
   2-12  participate in substance abuse treatment services in a program or
   2-13  facility approved or licensed by the Texas Commission on Alcohol
   2-14  and Drug Abuse if the person was sentenced for an offense involving
   2-15  controlled substances or the panel determines that the defendant's
   2-16  substance abuse was connected to the commission of the offense.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-18        SECTION 3.  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.