1-1 By: West, et al. S.B. No. 1576 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, 1-5 Nays 0; April 12, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to notifying local law enforcement officials of the 1-9 release of certain gang members from the institutional division of 1-10 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 499, Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 499.051 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 499.051. NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE OF GANG MEMBER. (a) 1-15 On the release of an inmate determined by the department to be a 1-16 member of a security threat group, the department shall notify the 1-17 sheriff of the county to which the inmate is released and, if the 1-18 inmate is released to a municipality, the chief of police for that 1-19 municipality. The notice must state the date on which the inmate 1-20 was released and state that the inmate has been determined by the 1-21 department to be a member of a security threat group. 1-22 (b) If the department is required by Section 508.115 to 1-23 notify a sheriff before the release of the inmate, the department 1-24 shall include the information described by Subsection (a) with the 1-25 notice provided under Section 508.115. 1-26 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-27 to the notification of the release of an inmate who is to be 1-28 released on or after September 15, 1999. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-35 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-36 * * * * *