HBA-EVB S.B. 232 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 232
By: Ellis
Corrections
4/26/1999
Engrossed



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, the Government Code does not require those responsible for
supervising inmates to notify the authority which originally placed those
inmates in a correctional facility of the release of such inmates by
discharge or on parole or mandatory supervision.  Such a notification might
aid in the collection of fines from these persons after discharge or
release.  S.B. 232 requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to
promptly notify certain courts of an inmate's discharge or release on
mandatory supervision or parole.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 493, Government Code, by adding Section 493.023,
as follows: 

Sec. 493.023. NOTIFICATION TO COURT OF RELEASE.  Requires the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice to promptly notify the clerk of the court in
which the inmate was convicted of the release of an inmate who discharges
the inmate's sentence or of the release of an inmate on parole or mandatory
supervision. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.