By Hamric H.B. No. 201 75R2087 GWK-D 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.