TO: | Honorable Jim Murphy, Chair, House Committee on Corrections |
FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB272 by Miles (Relating to mandatory supervision for certain inmates sentenced following violation of a condition of community supervision.), As Introduced |
Under the provisions of the bill, certain offenders who were revoked from deferred adjudication community supervision and were not required to register as sex offenders would be automatically released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) under Mandatory Supervision (MS) with no input from the Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) once their calendar time and good conduct time equaled the full term of their sentence.
The automatic release of offenders under MS is expected to result in decreased demands upon the correctional resources of the state due to shorter terms of confinement in TDCJ. During fiscal year 2014, there were 354 offenders incarcerated in TDCJ who met the bill's criteria for release under MS and were not approved by the BPP for Discretionary Mandatory Supervision (DMS) release. Under the provisions of the bill, these offenders would have been automatically released under MS instead of being denied release by the BPP through the DMS review process.
Assuming sentencing patterns and release policies not addressed by this bill remain constant, the probable impact of the bill's provisions during the first five years following passage, in terms of daily demand upon the adult corrections agency, is estimated as follows:
Fiscal Year | Decrease In Demand For Prison Capacity | Increase in Demand For Parole Supervision |
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2016 | 351 | 351 |
2017 | 351 | 351 |
2018 | 350 | 350 |
2019 | 350 | 350 |
2020 | 351 | 351 |
Source Agencies: |
LBB Staff: | UP, LM, ESi
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