By: West, et al. S.B. No. 1576
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.