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.