1-1     By:  Ellis, Cain                                       S.B. No. 232
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     February 10, 1999, rereferred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-5     March 25, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-6     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; March 25, 1999,
 1-7     sent to printer.)
 1-8     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 232                    By:  Ellis
 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-10                                   AN ACT
1-11     relating to the notification of a court on the discharge of a
1-12     person from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or release on
1-13     parole or mandatory supervision.
1-14           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-15           SECTION 1.  Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by
1-16     adding Section 493.023 to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 493.023.  NOTIFICATION TO COURT OF RELEASE.  On release
1-18     of an inmate who discharges the inmate's sentence or on release of
1-19     an inmate on parole or mandatory supervision, the department
1-20     promptly shall notify the clerk of the court in which the inmate
1-21     was convicted of that fact.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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