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1	1	By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 976
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2011; March 8, 2011,
3	3	read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
4	4	April 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
5	5	Nays 1; April 7, 2011, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to the supervised reentry into the community of certain
11	11	inmates nearing their date of discharge from the Texas Department
12	12	of Criminal Justice.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 508, Government Code, is
15	15	amended by adding Section 508.1491 to read as follows:
16	16	Sec. 508.1491. SUPERVISED REENTRY PROGRAM. (a) This
17	17	section applies to an inmate who is eligible for release on parole
18	18	but who has not been released on parole or to mandatory supervision
19	19	under this chapter before the date described by Subsection (b).
20	20	(b) A parole panel shall order the release of an inmate to
21	21	the supervised reentry program described by Subsection (c) on the
22	22	later of the following dates, as determined by the actual calendar
23	23	time the inmate has served, without consideration of good conduct
24	24	time:
25	25	(1) one year before the date on which the inmate will
26	26	discharge the inmate's sentence; or
27	27	(2) the date on which the inmate will have served 90
28	28	percent of the inmate's sentence.
29	29	(c) The department, before an inmate is released under
30	30	Subsection (b), shall make arrangements for the inmate's supervised
31	31	reentry into the community. The inmate's supervised reentry
32	32	program must:
33	33	(1) provide the inmate with skills necessary to ensure
34	34	the successful reentry of the inmate into the community, including
35	35	providing the inmate with appropriate substance abuse treatment,
36	36	counseling, and other social service programs; and
37	37	(2) be coordinated with any programs in which the
38	38	inmate is or will be participating or services the inmate is or will
39	39	be receiving through:
40	40	(A) the comprehensive reentry and reintegration
41	41	plan under Section 501.092;
42	42	(B) the reentry program for long-term inmates
43	43	under Section 501.096; or
44	44	(C) the reintegration services provided under
45	45	Section 501.097.
46	46	(d) A parole panel releasing an inmate under Subsection (b)
47	47	shall impose conditions that require the inmate to participate
48	48	fully in all treatment and counseling programs provided by the
49	49	department and may impose any other conditions determined by the
50	50	panel to be appropriate. An inmate who fails to comply with a
51	51	condition imposed under this subsection is subject to revocation or
52	52	other sanctions in the same manner and under the same procedures as
53	53	an inmate who fails to comply with conditions of parole or mandatory
54	54	supervision.
55	55	(e) The period of supervised reentry is computed by
56	56	subtracting from the term for which the inmate was sentenced the
57	57	calendar time served on the sentence. The time served on supervised
58	58	reentry is computed as calendar time.
59	59	(f) If an inmate's participation in the supervised reentry
60	60	program is revoked, the remaining portion of the inmate's sentence
61	61	is computed with credit for any time the inmate served in the
62	62	program.
63	63	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to any
64	64	inmate serving a term of imprisonment in the Texas Department of
65	65	Criminal Justice on or after the effective date of this Act,
66	66	regardless of when the inmate was sentenced to serve that term.
67	67	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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