By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 1533
       74R5431 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to procedures for granting parole to inmates serving
    1-3  sentences for certain sexual or sexually assaultive offenses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 7(g), Article 42.18, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  The board may grant parole to a person convicted of a
    1-8  <capital> felony under Section 19.03, 21.11, 22.011, or 22.021,
    1-9  Penal Code, only on a two-thirds vote of the entire membership of
   1-10  the board.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-12  only to an inmate serving a sentence for an offense committed on or
   1-13  after the effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this
   1-14  section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
   1-15  Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
   1-16        (b)  An inmate serving a sentence for an offense committed
   1-17  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
   1-18  effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
   1-19  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.