82R7243 MAW-F
By: Allen, Marquez H.B. No. 1477
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to awarding credit to certain inmates for 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, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) 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.
Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), for [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 is to be served without credit for the time
from the date of the person's release to the date of revocation.
Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), for [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.
(c-1) If the parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional
pardon of a person other than a person described by Section
508.149(a) is revoked and the person is required to serve the
remaining portion of the sentence on which the person was released,
the remaining portion of the sentence is to be served with credit
for the time from the date of the person's release to the date of the
revocation if:
(1) the date of the issuance of the warrant or summons
is on or after the first anniversary of the date of the person's
release; and
(2) the person's parole, mandatory supervision, or
conditional pardon is revoked solely because the person committed
an administrative violation of a condition of release.
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.