Amend HB 2918 by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read as follows and by renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly: SECTION ____. The legislature finds that the release of dangerous inmates from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice sentenced under prior Texas law creates the potential for a continuing threat to public safety. The legislature finds that current Texas law eliminates the chance that dangerous inmates will be automatically released from Texas prisons. However, many inmates sentenced under prior Texas law are eligible for various forms of early release. Because the United States Constitution precludes increasing the sentences of dangerous inmates after their convictions, and because prior Texas law allows the release of these inmates before the completion of their sentences, there is a need to better supervise these inmates on release. The legislature finds that there is a compelling state interest in placing inmates released on parole and mandatory supervision under the kind of supervision that will best protect public safety. The level of supervision of inmates released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice should be appropriate based on their likelihood of committing new offenses, the nature of their original offenses, their performance in prison programs designed to rehabilitate inmates, and any other factor deemed by a parole panel to be relevant to their status. The legislature finds that there is a need for a program of intensive supervision of certain inmates whose histories indicate a propensity for violence. Regardless of whether an inmate's instant offense is a violent offense, there is a need for careful evaluation and review of each inmate released from prison to determine the need for supervision of the inmate. The legislature intends by this measure, and by related appropriations, to enhance existing parole programs and to provide appropriate supervision, including electronic monitoring, under existing and future law for dangerous inmates released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It is the legislature's intention that the scope of allowable supervision under this measure and related statutes be construed in the broadest possible manner consistent with constitutional restraints.