79R7447 MFC-D

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



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the requirement that the Board of Pardons and Paroles 
notify county law enforcement before considering the release of an 
inmate to that county.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 508.115(a), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(a)  Before [Not later than the 11th day before the date] a 
parole panel considers for [orders the] release on parole [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 is released that a 
parole panel is considering release on parole or 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.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.