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| 1 | 1 | By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1321 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to discharging or releasing inmates from the Texas | |
| 7 | 7 | Department of Criminal Justice at or near certain department | |
| 8 | 8 | facilities. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by | |
| 11 | 11 | adding Section 493.029 to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | Sec. 493.029. LOCAL AND REGIONAL RELEASE AND DISCHARGE | |
| 13 | 13 | PROCEDURE. The department shall establish a procedure through | |
| 14 | 14 | which an inmate being discharged from the department or being | |
| 15 | 15 | released on parole or to mandatory supervision is discharged or | |
| 16 | 16 | released, as applicable, from: | |
| 17 | 17 | (1) the facility in which the inmate is serving the | |
| 18 | 18 | inmate's sentence; or | |
| 19 | 19 | (2) a facility designated as a regional release | |
| 20 | 20 | facility that is 75 or fewer miles away from the facility in which | |
| 21 | 21 | the inmate is serving the inmate's sentence. | |
| 22 | 22 | SECTION 2. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall | |
| 23 | 23 | establish and implement the local and regional discharge and | |
| 24 | 24 | release procedure required by Section 493.029, Government Code, as | |
| 25 | 25 | added by this Act, as soon as possible after September 1, 2009, and | |
| 26 | 26 | in no event later than September 1, 2010. | |
| 27 | 27 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |