By West, et al. S.B. No. 1576 76R2680 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notifying local law enforcement of the release of 1-3 certain gang members from the institutional division of the Texas 1-4 Department of Criminal Justice. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 499, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 499.051 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 499.051. NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE OF GANG MEMBER. (a) 1-9 On the release of an inmate determined by the department to be a 1-10 member of a security threat group, the department shall notify the 1-11 sheriff of the county to which the inmate is released and, if the 1-12 inmate is released to a municipality, the chief of police for that 1-13 municipality. The notice must state the date on which the inmate 1-14 was released and state that the inmate has been determined by the 1-15 department to be a member of a security threat group. 1-16 (b) If the department is required by Section 508.115 to 1-17 notify a sheriff before the release of the inmate, the department 1-18 shall include the information described by Subsection (a) with the 1-19 notice provided under Section 508.115. 1-20 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-21 to the notification of the release of an inmate who is to be 1-22 released on or after September 15, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.