By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 205
       74R2740 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to temporary furloughs granted to inmates by the
    1-3  institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 501.006(i), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (i)  The institutional division may not grant a furlough
    1-8  under Subsection (c) to an inmate:
    1-9              (1)  convicted of an offense under Section 42.07(a)(7),
   1-10  Penal Code;
   1-11              (2)  convicted of an offense committed by the inmate
   1-12  during the inmate's release on a temporary furlough previously
   1-13  granted by the institutional division; or
   1-14              (3)  serving a sentence for an offense the judgment for
   1-15  which contains an affirmative finding under Section 3g, Article
   1-16  42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.