By Hodge, Haggerty, Hawley, Crabb, Ritter, H.B. No. 2800
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the restoration of forfeited good conduct time.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 498.004, Government Code, as amended by
1-5 Chapters 249 and 321, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular
1-6 Session, 1995, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 498.004. FORFEITURE AND RESTORATION OF GOOD CONDUCT
1-8 TIME. (a) If, during the actual term of imprisonment of an inmate
1-9 in the institutional division or in a transfer facility, the inmate
1-10 commits an offense or violates a rule of the division, the
1-11 department may forfeit all or any part of the inmate's accrued good
1-12 conduct time. The department may [not] restore good conduct time
1-13 forfeited under this subsection.
1-14 (b) On the revocation of parole or mandatory supervision of
1-15 an inmate, the inmate forfeits all good conduct time previously
1-16 accrued. On return to the institutional division the inmate may
1-17 accrue new good conduct time for subsequent time served in the
1-18 division. The department may [not] restore good conduct time
1-19 forfeited on a revocation.
1-20 SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that the
1-21 Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall establish a procedure to
1-22 restore previously forfeited good conduct time as permitted by
1-23 Section 498.004, Government Code, as amended by this Act, in each
1-24 circumstance in which the conduct of an inmate warrants the
1-25 restoration of the previously forfeited good conduct time.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.