By Staples H.B. No. 2489
75R7242 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the administration of the Uniform Act for out-of-State
1-3 probationer and parolee supervision.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 42.11, Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3. The title of the officer designated by the Governor
1-8 under Subdivision (5) of the compact is [shall be entitled] the
1-9 Interstate [Parole] Compact Administrator for Probation and Parole.
1-10 The Interstate Compact Administrator [and] is authorized to
1-11 appoint two Deputy Interstate [Parole] Compact Administrators, with
1-12 one Deputy primarily responsible for issues dealing with
1-13 probationers and the other primarily responsible for issues dealing
1-14 with parolees. The executive director of the Texas Department of
1-15 Criminal Justice or the executive director's designee is authorized
1-16 and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the
1-17 carrying out of the compact in every particular.
1-18 SECTION 2. 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,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.