Bill Text: TX SB1067 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of certain information by a parole panel in determining whether to release an inmate on parole.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1067 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1067-Introduced.html
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| By: Middleton | S.B. No. 1067 | |
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| relating to the consideration of certain information by a parole | ||
| panel in determining whether to release an inmate on parole. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 508, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 508.1415 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 508.1415. ADDITIONAL PAROLE CONSIDERATIONS. (a) The | ||
| board shall adopt rules requiring a parole panel considering an | ||
| inmate for release on parole to issue a subpoena under Section | ||
| 508.048 for the production of disciplinary records relating to the | ||
| inmate that are maintained by the Texas Education Agency. The rules | ||
| must provide that the existence or contents of the subpoena and | ||
| information obtained in response to the subpoena are not to be | ||
| disclosed to any person other than the board and the parole panel. | ||
| The consideration of disciplinary records by a parole panel as | ||
| required by Subsection (b) is a law enforcement purpose. | ||
| (b) In determining whether to release an inmate on parole, a | ||
| parole panel shall consider: | ||
| (1) disciplinary records obtained under Subsection | ||
| (a); | ||
| (2) relevant information available on the inmate's | ||
| social media accounts; and | ||
| (3) statements submitted under Subsection (c). | ||
| (c) Not later than the 21st day before the date a parole | ||
| panel considers an inmate for release on parole, the department | ||
| shall publish a notice on the department's Internet website and in a | ||
| newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the inmate | ||
| was convicted. The notice must state: | ||
| (1) the inmate's name; | ||
| (2) the county in which the inmate was convicted; | ||
| (3) the offense for which the inmate was convicted; | ||
| (4) that persons residing in the county in which the | ||
| inmate was convicted may submit a written statement to the parole | ||
| panel; and | ||
| (5) the manner and period in which a person described | ||
| by Subdivision (4) may submit a written statement to the parole | ||
| panel. | ||
| (d) The period provided for the submission of written | ||
| statements under Subsection (c) may not be less than 10 days. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, the Board of | ||
| Pardons and Paroles shall adopt the rules required by Section | ||
| 508.1415, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 508.1415, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to the consideration by a parole panel of the | ||
| release of an inmate on parole that occurs on or after December 1, | ||
| 2023. The consideration by a parole panel of the release of an | ||
| inmate that occurs before December 1, 2023, is governed by the law | ||
| in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
