By McClendon H.B. No. 456 76R419 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to sanctions imposed on the violation of a condition of 1-3 parole or mandatory supervision. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 508.283, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) In determining under Subsection (a)(2) whether to 1-8 continue, revoke, or modify the parole or mandatory supervision of 1-9 a releasee other than a releasee charged with the commission of a 1-10 new offense, the board shall revoke parole or mandatory supervision 1-11 only if no other sanction exists that will protect the public and 1-12 increase the likelihood of the rehabilitation of the releasee. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.