Bill Text: TX HJR10 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to terminate the sentence of a person who has successfully served the required number of years on parole.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HJR10 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR10-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to terminate the sentence of a person who has successfully served the required number of years on parole.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HJR10 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR10-Introduced.html
87R978 MAW-D | ||
By: Thompson of Harris | H.J.R. No. 10 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature | ||
to enact laws providing for a court to grant a commutation of | ||
punishment to a person who has successfully served the required | ||
number of years on parole. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11(a), Article IV, Texas Constitution, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Legislature shall by law establish a Board of | ||
Pardons and Paroles and shall require it to keep record of its | ||
actions and the reasons for its actions. The Legislature shall have | ||
authority to enact parole laws, including laws authorizing a court | ||
to grant a commutation of punishment to a person who has | ||
successfully served the specified number of years on parole | ||
required by law, and laws that require or permit courts to inform | ||
juries about the effect of good conduct time and eligibility for | ||
parole or mandatory supervision on the period of incarceration | ||
served by a defendant convicted of a criminal offense. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the | ||
legislature to enact laws providing for a court to grant a | ||
commutation of punishment to a person who has successfully served | ||
the required number of years on parole." |