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78R6164 EMT-D

By:  Lewis                                                        H.B. No. 3073



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to collaboration between criminal justice agencies to 
ensure the success of supervision programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
	(j)(1)  If a judge places a defendant on community 
supervision, the judge may require the person to participate in a 
direct supervision program that ensures that the person receives 
adequate employment, housing, and other resources necessary for 
integration into the community.
		(2)  In this subsection, "direct supervision" means an 
intense supervision program that includes an efficient and 
effective case management system and in which program managers 
collaborate with supervision officers, members of other municipal, 
county, and state criminal justice agencies, and the community to 
achieve program success.
	SECTION 2.  Section 508.149, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
	(e)  The department shall provide to an inmate who is 
ineligible for release to mandatory supervision the opportunity to 
participate in  an incarceration-based reentry program that offers 
direct supervision and guidance to ensure that the inmate, when 
released, will receive adequate employment, housing, and other 
resources necessary for successful reentry management and 
reintegration into the community.  In this subsection, "direct 
supervision" has the meaning assigned by Section 508.192.
	SECTION 3.  Subchapter F, Chapter 508, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Sections 508.192 and 508.193 to read as follows:
	Sec. 508.192.  PARTICIPATION IN REENTRY PROGRAM. (a) A 
parole panel shall require as a condition of release on parole or to 
mandatory supervision that the releasee participate in a reentry 
program that offers direct supervision to ensure that the inmate 
receives adequate employment, housing, and other resources 
necessary for successful reentry management and reintegration into 
the community.
	(b)  In this section, "direct supervision" means an intense 
supervision program that includes an efficient and effective case 
management system and in which reentry program managers collaborate 
with parole authorities, members of other municipal, county, and 
state criminal justice agencies, and the community to achieve 
program success.
	Sec. 508.193.  JUDICIAL RECOMMENDATION.  The sentencing 
judge in the releasee's criminal case may recommend to the board 
conditions of parole or release to mandatory supervision that 
relate to reentry programs.
	SECTION 4.  Subchapter I, Chapter 508, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 508.2812 to read as follows:
	Sec. 508.2812.  CONSIDERATION OF JUDICIAL RECOMMENDATION.  
At a hearing held under Section 508.281 or 508.2811, the parole 
panel shall consider a recommendation from the sentencing judge in 
the releasee's criminal case in deciding whether to revoke the 
releasee's parole or release to mandatory supervision.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.