By Madden H.B. No. 196
74R414 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the effect of awards of good conduct time on
1-3 eligibility for release on parole or mandatory supervision.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 8(b)(5), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (5) Except as provided by Subsection (m) of this
1-8 section, all other prisoners shall be eligible for release on
1-9 parole when their actual calendar time served, without the
1-10 consideration of <plus> good conduct time, equals one-fourth of the
1-11 maximum sentence imposed or 15 years, whichever is less.
1-12 SECTION 2. (a) Section 8(c), Article 42.18, Code of
1-13 Criminal Procedure, is repealed.
1-14 (b) Chapter 498, Government Code, is repealed.
1-15 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-16 only to a defendant sentenced for an offense committed on or after
1-17 the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an
1-18 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
1-19 element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
1-20 (b) A defendant sentenced for an offense committed before
1-21 the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when
1-22 the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in
1-23 effect for that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-1 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.