By West, et al.                                       S.B. No. 1577
         76R2965 GWK-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to training for parole officers who supervise gang members
 1-3     released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or
 1-4     mandatory supervision.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 508, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 508.1141 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 508.1141.  SPECIALIZED TRAINING:  GANG MEMBERS.  The
 1-9     department shall develop and provide specialized training for
1-10     parole officers supervising releasees previously identified by the
1-11     department as being members of prison gangs, criminal street gangs,
1-12     or security threat groups.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.