Bill Text: TX SB883 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to awarding credit to an inmate for certain time between release on and revocation of parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-05 - No action taken in committee [SB883 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB883-Introduced.html

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82R7248 MAW-D
By: Whitmire S.B. No. 883

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to awarding credit to an inmate for certain time between
release on and revocation of parole, mandatory supervision, or
conditional pardon.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 508.283(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) If the parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional
pardon of a person [other than a person described by Section
508.149(a)] is revoked, the person may be required to serve the
remaining portion of the sentence on which the person was released.
The [For a person who on the date of issuance of a warrant or summons
initiating the revocation process is subject to a sentence the
remaining portion of which is greater than the amount of time from
the date of the person's release to the date of issuance of the
warrant or summons, the] remaining portion of the sentence is to be
served with [without] credit for the time from the date of the
person's release to the date of the violation that resulted in the
revocation. [For a person who on the date of issuance of the
warrant or summons is subject to a sentence the remaining portion of
which is less than the amount of time from the date of the person's
release to the date of issuance of the warrant or summons, the
remaining portion is to be served without credit for an amount of
time equal to the remaining portion of the sentence on the date of
issuance of the warrant or citation.]
SECTION 2. Section 508.283(b), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to the calculation of the remaining sentence for an inmate whose
release on parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon is
revoked on or after the effective date of this Act. The calculation
of the remaining sentence for an inmate whose release on parole,
mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon is revoked before the
effective date of this Act 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, 2011.