By: Hodge (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 94
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2009;
May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 14, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the application of laws awarding credit to an inmate for
time between release on and subsequent revocation of parole,
mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding Section 11, Chapter 856, Acts of
the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, the change in law made
by Section 7 of that Act to Section 508.283, Government Code,
applies to the calculation of the remaining sentence for an inmate
whose release on parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional
pardon is revoked regardless of whether the revocation occurred
before, on, or after September 1, 2001.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2010.
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