By: Parker  S.B. No. 1506
         (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2025; March 6, 2025,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 10, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 10, 2025,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1506 By:  Flores
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the frequency with which the Board of Pardons and
  Paroles reconsiders inmates for release on parole.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 508.141(g) and (g-1), Government Code,
  are amended to read as follows:
         (g)  The board shall adopt a policy establishing the date on
  which the board may reconsider for release an inmate who has
  previously been denied release.  The policy must require the board
  to reconsider the inmate for release[:
               [(1)  an inmate serving a sentence for an offense
  listed in Section 508.149(a) or for an offense punishable as a
  felony of the second or third degree under Section 22.04, Penal
  Code,] during a month designated under Subsection (g-1) by the
  parole panel that denied release[; and
               [(2)  an inmate other than an inmate described by
  Subdivision (1) as soon as practicable after the first anniversary
  of the date of the denial].
         (g-1)  The month designated for reconsideration [under
  Subsection (g)(1) by the parole panel that denied release] must:
               (1)  except as provided by Subdivision (2), begin after
  the first anniversary of the date of the denial and end before the
  fifth anniversary of the date of the denial; or
               (2)  if[, unless] the inmate is serving a sentence for
  an offense under Section 22.021, Penal Code, or a life sentence for
  a capital felony, [in which event the designated month must] begin
  after the first anniversary of the date of the denial and end before
  the 10th anniversary of the date of the denial.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  Section 508.141, Government Code, as
  amended by this Act, applies to any inmate who is confined in a
  facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Department of
  Criminal Justice on or after the effective date of this Act,
  regardless of whether the offense for which the inmate is confined
  occurred before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
         (b)  The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall adopt a policy
  consistent with Section 508.141, Government Code, as amended by
  this Act, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this
  Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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