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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-26 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB99 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB99-Introduced.html
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| 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. | ||
