1-1     By:  West, et al.                                     S.B. No. 1577
 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 training for parole officers who supervise gang members
 1-9     released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or
1-10     mandatory supervision.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 508, Government Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 508.1141 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 508.1141.  SPECIALIZED TRAINING:  GANG MEMBERS.  The
1-15     department shall develop and provide specialized training for
1-16     parole officers supervising releasees previously identified by the
1-17     department as being members of prison gangs, criminal street gangs,
1-18     or security threat groups.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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