By Hamric                                              H.B. No. 201

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the eligibility for release on mandatory supervision of

 1-3     certain inmates of the institutional division of the Texas

 1-4     Department of Criminal Justice.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 3, Chapter 263, Acts

 1-7     of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, Section 8(c-1),

 1-8     Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Chapter

 1-9     263, applies to any inmate who on or after the effective date of

1-10     this Act is imprisoned while serving a sentence for an offense

1-11     regardless of whether the offense was committed before, on, or

1-12     after September 1, 1996.

1-13           (b)  An inmate who is released to mandatory supervision

1-14     before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in

1-15     effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the

1-16     former law is continued in effect for this purpose.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.