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.