Amend HB 1585 (Senate Committee Report) by adding an
appropriately numbered SECTION to read as follows and by
renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION _____. Section 498.004, Government Code, as amended
by Chapters 249 and 321, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1995, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
Sec. 498.004. FORFEITURE AND RESTORATION OF GOOD CONDUCT
TIME. (a) If, during the actual term of imprisonment of an inmate
in the institutional division or in a transfer facility, the inmate
commits an offense or violates a rule of the division, the
department may forfeit all or any part of the inmate's accrued good
conduct time. The department may <not> restore good conduct time
forfeited under this subsection.
(b) On the revocation of parole or mandatory supervision of
an inmate, the inmate forfeits all good conduct time previously
accrued. On return to the institutional division the inmate may
accrue new good conduct time for subsequent time served in the
division. The department may <not> restore good conduct time
forfeited on a revocation.