1-1  By:  Shapiro, Sims                                      S.B. No. 43
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 1994; January 10, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  February 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  6, Nays 0; February 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the temporary furlough policy of the Texas Department
    1-9  of Criminal Justice.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 501.006, Government Code, is amended by
   1-12  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
   1-13        (j)  The institutional division may not grant a furlough
   1-14  under Subsection (c) to an inmate serving a sentence for or
   1-15  previously convicted of an offense:
   1-16              (1)  listed in Section 3g(a)(1), Article 42.12, Code of
   1-17  Criminal Procedure;
   1-18              (2)  for which the court made an affirmative finding
   1-19  under Section 3g(a)(2) of that article; or
   1-20              (3)  listed in one of the following sections of the
   1-21  Penal Code:
   1-22                    (A)  Section 22.011 (sexual assault);
   1-23                    (B)  Section 25.02 (prohibited sexual conduct);
   1-24                    (C)  Section 43.25 (sexual performance by a
   1-25  child); or
   1-26                    (D)  Section 43.26 (possession or promotion of
   1-27  child pornography).
   1-28        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-29        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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