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Amend SB 60 on third reading by adding an appropriately
numbered SECTION to read as follows and by renumbering existing
SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subsections (a) and (f), Section 508.146,
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) An inmate, other than an inmate who is serving a
sentence of death or life without parole or an inmate who has a
reportable conviction or adjudication under Chapter 62, Code of
Criminal Procedure, may be released on medically recommended
intensive supervision on a date designated by a parole panel
described by Subsection (e), except that an inmate with an instant
offense that is an offense described in Section 3g, Article 42.12,
Code of Criminal Procedure, may only be considered if a medical
condition of terminal illness or long-term care has been diagnosed,
if:
(1) the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with
Medical or Mental Impairments, in cooperation with the Correctional
Managed Health Care Committee, identifies the inmate as being
elderly, physically disabled, mentally ill, terminally ill, or
mentally retarded or having a condition requiring long-term care;
(2) the parole panel determines that, based on the
inmate's condition and a medical evaluation, the inmate does not
constitute a threat to public safety; and
(3) the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with
Medical or Mental Impairments, in cooperation with the pardons and
paroles division, has prepared for the inmate a medically
recommended intensive supervision plan that requires the inmate to
submit to electronic monitoring, places the inmate on
super-intensive supervision, or otherwise ensures appropriate
supervision of the inmate.
(f) An inmate who is not a citizen of the United States, as
defined by federal law, who is not under a sentence of death or life
without parole, and who does not have a reportable conviction or
adjudication under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, or an
instant offense described in Section 3g, Article 42.12, Code of
Criminal Procedure, may be released to immigration authorities
pending deportation on a date designated by a parole panel
described by Subsection (e) if the parole panel determines that on
release the inmate would be deported to another country and that the
inmate does not constitute a threat to public safety in the other
country or this country and is unlikely to reenter this country
illegally.