By Staples                                      H.B. No. 2489

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                                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.