By:  Whitmire                                         S.B. No. 1609

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the administration of the Uniform Act for out-of-state

 1-2     probationer and parolee supervision.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 3, Article 42.11, Code of Criminal

 1-5     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 3.  The title of the officer designated by the Governor

 1-7     under Subdivision (5) of the compact is [shall be entitled] the

 1-8     Interstate [Parole] Compact Administrator for Probation and Parole.

 1-9     The Interstate Compact Administrator  [and] is authorized to

1-10     appoint two Deputy Interstate [Parole] Compact Administrators, with

1-11     one deputy primarily responsible for issues dealing with

1-12     probationers and the other primarily responsible for issues dealing

1-13     with parolees.  The executive director of the Texas Department of

1-14     Criminal Justice or the executive director's designee is authorized

1-15     and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the

1-16     carrying out of the compact in every particular.

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.