By: Ellis, Cain S.B. No. 232 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the notification of a court on the discharge of a 1-2 person from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or release on 1-3 parole or mandatory supervision. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 493.023 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 493.023. NOTIFICATION TO COURT OF RELEASE. On release 1-8 of an inmate who discharges the inmate's sentence or on release of 1-9 an inmate on parole or mandatory supervision, the department 1-10 promptly shall notify the clerk of the court in which the inmate 1-11 was convicted of that fact. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-13 SECTION 3. 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.