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1	1	By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1948
2	2	Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1948:
3	3	By: Madden C.S.S.B. No. 1948
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6	6	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	7	AN ACT
8	8	relating to a study regarding a supervised reentry program for
9	9	certain inmates nearing their date of discharge from the Texas
10	10	Department of Criminal Justice.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
13	13	(1) "Board" means the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
14	14	(2) "Department" means the Texas Department of
15	15	Criminal Justice.
16	16	SECTION 2. STUDY. The board and the department shall
17	17	jointly conduct a study regarding the implementation of a
18	18	supervised reentry program for inmates nearing their date of
19	19	discharge from the department. In conducting the study, the board
20	20	and the department shall examine whether:
21	21	(1) a parole panel should be statutorily required to
22	22	order the release of an inmate to a supervised reentry program if
23	23	the inmate is eligible for release on parole but has not been
24	24	released on parole or to mandatory supervision on the later of the
25	25	following dates, as determined by the actual calendar time the
26	26	inmate has served, without consideration of good conduct time:
27	27	(A) one year before the date on which the inmate
28	28	will discharge the inmate's sentence; or
29	29	(B) the date on which the inmate will have served
30	30	90 percent of the inmate's sentence;
31	31	(2) the department should be required to make
32	32	arrangements, to the extent practicable and before an inmate is
33	33	discharged, for the inmate's supervised reentry into the community;
34	34	(3) the inmate's supervised reentry program should
35	35	provide the inmate with skills necessary to make a transition from
36	36	incarceration to the community, including providing the inmate with
37	37	appropriate substance abuse treatment, counseling, and other
38	38	social service programs;
39	39	(4) a parole panel releasing an inmate to a supervised
40	40	reentry program should require the inmate as a condition of that
41	41	release to participate fully in all treatment and counseling
42	42	programs provided by the department;
43	43	(5) an inmate who fails to comply with a condition of
44	44	release to a supervised reentry program should be subject to
45	45	revocation or other sanctions in the same manner and under the same
46	46	procedures as an inmate who fails to comply with conditions of
47	47	release on parole or to mandatory supervision;
48	48	(6) the inmate's period of supervised reentry should
49	49	be computed by subtracting from the term for which the inmate was
50	50	sentenced the calendar time the inmate served on the sentence
51	51	before the inmate's release to a supervised reentry program;
52	52	(7) the time served by the inmate on supervised
53	53	reentry should be computed as additional calendar time the inmate
54	54	served on the sentence; and
55	55	(8) an inmate released to a supervised reentry program
56	56	should be monitored through a super-intensive supervision program.
57	57	SECTION 3. REPORT. Not later than May 1, 2010, the board
58	58	and the department shall jointly report the results of the study
59	59	conducted under this Act to the governor, the lieutenant governor,
60	60	the speaker of the house of representatives, the Criminal Justice
61	61	Legislative Oversight Committee, and the standing committees in the
62	62	senate and the house of representatives that have primary
63	63	jurisdiction over corrections.
64	64	SECTION 4. EXPIRATION. This Act expires September 1, 2010.
65	65	SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect
66	66	immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members
67	67	elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas
68	68	Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for
69	69	immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.