By Hodge                                              H.B. No. 2800
         77R9018 GWK-F                           
                                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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.