1-1 By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1609
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the administration of the Uniform Act for out-of-State
1-9 probationer and parolee supervision.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 42.11, Code of Criminal
1-12 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 3. The title of the officer designated by the Governor
1-14 under Subdivision (5) of the compact is [shall be entitled] the
1-15 Interstate [Parole] Compact Administrator for Probation and Parole.
1-16 The Interstate Compact Administrator [and] is authorized to
1-17 appoint two Deputy Interstate [Parole] Compact Administrators, with
1-18 one deputy primarily responsible for issues dealing with
1-19 probationers and the other primarily responsible for issues dealing
1-20 with parolees. The executive director of the Texas Department of
1-21 Criminal Justice or the executive director's designee is authorized
1-22 and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the
1-23 carrying out of the compact in every particular.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30 passage, and it is so enacted.
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