By Ellis S.B. No. 1698
76R3049 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the manner in which the Board of Pardons and Paroles
1-3 performs duties related to clemency.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 508.047(b), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The members of the board must [are not required to]
1-8 meet as a body to perform the members' duties in clemency matters.
1-9 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-10 to clemency duties performed by the Board of Pardons and Paroles
1-11 on or after the effective date of this Act. Duties performed
1-12 before the effective date of this Act are covered by the law in
1-13 effect at the time the duties were performed, and the former law is
1-14 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.