Bill Text: TX SB99 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the supervised reentry into the community of certain inmates nearing their date of discharge from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-26 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB99 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB99-Introduced.html
84R2046 JRR-D | ||
By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 99 |
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relating to the supervised reentry into the community of certain | ||
inmates nearing their date of discharge from the Texas Department | ||
of Criminal Justice. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 508, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 508.1491 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 508.1491. SUPERVISED REENTRY PROGRAM. (a) This | ||
section applies to an inmate who is eligible for release on parole | ||
but who has not been released on parole or to mandatory supervision | ||
under this chapter before the date described by Subsection (b). | ||
(b) A parole panel shall order the release of an inmate to | ||
the supervised reentry program described by Subsection (c) on the | ||
later of the following dates, as determined by the actual calendar | ||
time the inmate has served, without consideration of good conduct | ||
time: | ||
(1) one year before the date on which the inmate will | ||
discharge the inmate's sentence; or | ||
(2) the date on which the inmate will have served 90 | ||
percent of the inmate's sentence. | ||
(c) The department, before an inmate is released under | ||
Subsection (b), shall make arrangements for the inmate's supervised | ||
reentry into the community. The inmate's supervised reentry | ||
program must: | ||
(1) provide the inmate with skills necessary to ensure | ||
the successful reentry of the inmate into the community, including | ||
providing the inmate with appropriate substance abuse treatment, | ||
counseling, and other social service programs; and | ||
(2) be coordinated with any reentry and reintegration | ||
services that the inmate is or will be receiving under Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 501. | ||
(d) A parole panel releasing an inmate under Subsection (b) | ||
shall impose conditions that require the inmate to participate | ||
fully in all treatment and counseling programs provided by the | ||
department and may impose any other conditions determined by the | ||
panel to be appropriate. An inmate who fails to comply with a | ||
condition imposed under this subsection is subject to revocation or | ||
other sanctions in the same manner and under the same procedures as | ||
an inmate who fails to comply with conditions of parole or mandatory | ||
supervision. | ||
(e) The period of supervised reentry is computed by | ||
subtracting from the term for which the inmate was sentenced the | ||
calendar time served on the sentence. The time served on supervised | ||
reentry is computed as calendar time. | ||
(f) If an inmate's participation in the supervised reentry | ||
program is revoked, the remaining portion of the inmate's sentence | ||
is computed with credit for any time the inmate served in the | ||
program. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to any | ||
inmate serving a term of imprisonment in the Texas Department of | ||
Criminal Justice on or after the effective date of this Act, | ||
regardless of when the inmate was sentenced to serve that term. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |