By: Shapiro, Sims S.B. No. 43
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the temporary furlough policy of the Texas Department
1-2 of Criminal Justice.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 501.006, Government Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
1-6 (j) The institutional division may not grant a furlough
1-7 under Subsection (c) to an inmate serving a sentence for or
1-8 previously convicted of an offense:
1-9 (1) listed in Section 3g(a)(1), Article 42.12, Code of
1-10 Criminal Procedure;
1-11 (2) for which the court made an affirmative finding
1-12 under Section 3g(a)(2) of that article; or
1-13 (3) listed in one of the following sections of the
1-14 Penal Code:
1-15 (A) Section 22.011 (sexual assault);
1-16 (B) Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual conduct);
1-17 (C) Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a
1-18 child); or
1-19 (D) Section 43.26 (possession or promotion of
1-20 child pornography).
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.