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.