By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1321
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to discharging or releasing inmates from the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice at or near certain department
  facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Section 493.029 to read as follows:
         Sec. 493.029.  LOCAL AND REGIONAL RELEASE AND DISCHARGE
  PROCEDURE.  The department shall establish a procedure through
  which an inmate being discharged from the department or being
  released on parole or to mandatory supervision is discharged or
  released, as applicable, from:
               (1)  the facility in which the inmate is serving the
  inmate's sentence; or
               (2)  a facility designated as a regional release
  facility that is 75 or fewer miles away from the facility in which
  the inmate is serving the inmate's sentence.
         SECTION 2.  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall
  establish and implement the local and regional discharge and
  release procedure required by Section 493.029, Government Code, as
  added by this Act, as soon as possible after September 1, 2009, and
  in no event later than September 1, 2010.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.