By:  Ogden, Whitmire                                              S.B. No. 756


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to providing notice to county law enforcement before a 
parole panel considers the release of an inmate to that county.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 508.115, Government Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as 
follows:
	(a)  Before [Not later than the 11th day before the date] a 
parole panel considers an inmate for [orders the] release on parole 
or medically recommended intensive supervision [of an inmate or not 
later than the 11th day after the date the board recommends that the 
governor grant executive clemency], the division shall notify the 
sheriffs, each chief of police, the prosecuting attorneys, and the 
district judges in the county in which the inmate was convicted and 
the county to which the inmate requests to be [is] released that a 
parole panel is considering release on parole or medically 
recommended intensive supervision and that the inmate may reside in 
that county on release.  Before the inmate is released, the division 
shall provide the notice required by this subsection to the county 
officials in the county in which the inmate is to be released if 
that county is not the county to which the defendant requested 
release [or the governor is considering clemency].
	(a-1)  Not later than the 11th day after the date the board 
recommends that the governor grant executive clemency, the division 
shall notify the sheriffs, each chief of police, the prosecuting 
attorneys, and the district judges in the county in which the inmate 
was convicted that the governor is considering clemency.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section 
508.115, Government Code, applies to the consideration by a parole 
panel of the release of an inmate that occurs on or after September 
1, 2005, or to a recommendation that the governor grant executive 
clemency that is made on or after that date.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.