By: Whitmire  S.B. No. 838
         (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2007; March 7, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 17, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 17, 2007,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 838 By:  Deuell
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the revocation or modification of a person's parole.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 508.283, Government Code, is amended by
  amending Subsections (a) and (e) and adding Subsections (e-1), (f),
  and (g) to read as follows:
         (a)  After a parole panel or designated agent of the board
  has held a hearing under Section 508.281, in any manner warranted by
  the evidence:
               (1)  the board may recommend to the governor to
  continue, revoke, or modify the conditional pardon; and
               (2)  except as provided by Subsection (g), a parole
  panel may continue, revoke, or modify the parole or mandatory
  supervision.
         (e)  If a person's parole or mandatory supervision is
  modified after it is established that the person violated
  conditions of release, the parole panel [board] may require the
  releasee to remain under custodial supervision in a county jail for
  a period of not less than 60 days or more than 180 days. The parole
  panel may require a person to remain under custodial supervision
  under this subsection each time the board modifies the person's
  parole or mandatory supervision.
         (e-1)  A sheriff is required to accept an inmate sanctioned
  under Subsection (e) [this subsection] only if the commissioners
  court of the county in which the sheriff serves and the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice have entered into a contract
  providing for the housing of persons sanctioned under this
  subsection.
         (f)  If a person's parole or mandatory supervision is
  modified and the parole panel requires the person to serve a term of
  confinement and treatment in a substance abuse treatment facility
  operated under Section 493.009 as a condition of the modification,
  the term must be not less than 180 days and not more than one year.
  This subsection does not apply to a sex offender or an inmate under
  super-intensive supervision parole under Section 508.317(d).
         (g)  A parole panel may not revoke a person's parole or
  mandatory supervision under this section if the person:
               (1)  committed only an administrative violation of a
  condition of release; or
               (2)  has been adjudicated guilty of or has pleaded
  guilty or nolo contendere to an offense punishable as a misdemeanor
  that is committed after release.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter I, Chapter 508, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 508.285 to read as follows:
         Sec. 508.285.  SANCTION:  CONFINEMENT IN INTERMEDIATE
  SANCTION FACILITY.  (a)  After a hearing under Section 508.281, if
  a parole panel modifies a person's parole or mandatory supervision
  because the person violated the person's conditions of release, the
  panel may require the person to remain under custodial supervision
  in an intermediate sanction facility operated by or under contract
  with the department for a term of not less than 60 days or more than
  one year. This subsection does not apply to a sex offender or an
  inmate under super-intensive supervision parole under Section
  508.317(d).
         (b)  A parole panel may require a person to remain under
  custodial supervision as described by Subsection (a) each time the
  panel modifies the person's parole or mandatory supervision.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a determination by a parole panel made on or after the effective
  date of this Act. A determination made before the effective date of
  this Act is covered by the law in effect on the date the
  determination was made, and the former law is continued in effect
  for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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