AN ACT
 1-1     relating to notifying local law enforcement officials of the
 1-2     release of certain gang members from the institutional division of
 1-3     the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 499, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 499.051 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 499.051.  NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE OF GANG MEMBER.
 1-8     (a)  On the release of an inmate determined by the department to be
 1-9     a member of a security threat group, the department shall notify
1-10     the sheriff of the county to which the inmate is released and, if
1-11     the inmate is released to a municipality, the chief of police for
1-12     that municipality.  The notice must state the date on which the
1-13     inmate was released and state that the inmate has been determined
1-14     by the department to be a member of a security threat group.
1-15           (b)  If the department is required by Section 508.115 to
1-16     notify a sheriff before the release of the inmate, the department
1-17     shall include the information described by Subsection (a) with the
1-18     notice provided under Section 508.115.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-20     to the notification of the release of an inmate who is to be
1-21     released on or after September 15, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1576 passed the Senate on
         April 14, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1576 passed the House on
         May 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 1, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor