By Nelson S.B. No. 203 74R319 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the availability to certain prisoners of release from 1-3 the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal 1-4 Justice on parole or to mandatory supervision. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 repealed. 1-8 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect January 1, 1996, but 1-9 only if the constitutional amendment proposed by __J.R. No. ____, 1-10 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, takes effect. If that 1-11 amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. 1-12 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only for an 1-13 offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For 1-14 purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the 1-15 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-16 before the effective date. 1-17 (c) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-18 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-19 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-20 SECTION 3. The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall continue 1-21 to perform the duties required under Article 42.18, Code of 1-22 Criminal Procedure, until those duties with regard to each person 1-23 convicted of an offense committed before January 1, 1996, are 1-24 completed. On the day on which the final duty is completed, the 2-1 board shall send written notice of the completion of its duties to 2-2 the governor and to the secretary of state for publication in the 2-3 Texas Register. On publication of the notice in the Texas 2-4 Register, the board's existence terminates. 2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.