82R4506 MAW-D
By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 976
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 programs in which the
inmate is or will be participating or services the inmate is or will
be receiving through:
(A) the comprehensive reentry and reintegration
plan under Section 501.092;
(B) the reentry program for long-term inmates
under Section 501.096; or
(C) the reintegration services provided under
Section 501.097.
(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, 2011.