Bill Text: TX SB461 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing certain discharged or released inmates with documentation to assist in obtaining employment.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-14 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB461 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB461-Introduced.html
| 86R5165 JG-D | ||
| By: Johnson | S.B. No. 461 | |
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| relating to providing certain discharged or released inmates with | ||
| documentation to assist in obtaining employment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 501, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 501.0155 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.0155. PROVIDING DISCHARGED OR RELEASED INMATE WITH | ||
| DOCUMENTATION FOR EMPLOYMENT. When an inmate is discharged or | ||
| released on parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon | ||
| and the intended residence designated by the inmate is in this | ||
| state, the department shall provide the inmate with relevant | ||
| documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release | ||
| employment, including: | ||
| (1) as applicable: | ||
| (A) the copy of the inmate's job training record | ||
| described by Section 497.094; | ||
| (B) the copy of the inmate's work record | ||
| described by Section 497.095; and | ||
| (C) the personal identification certificate | ||
| requested to be issued under Section 501.0165; | ||
| (2) a certified copy of the inmate's birth | ||
| certificate; | ||
| (3) the inmate's social security card or a replacement | ||
| social security card; | ||
| (4) a resume that includes any trade learned by the | ||
| inmate and the inmate's proficiency at that trade; and | ||
| (5) documentation that the inmate has completed a | ||
| practice job interview. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
