Texas § GV.499.004 - RULES
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§ GV.499.004. RULES
RULES; SUPERVISION OF PRE-PAROLEES. (a) The department shall establish policies for the conduct of pre-parolees transferred under this subchapter. (b) On transfer, the pre-parolee is subject to supervision by the parole division and shall obey the orders of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and the parole division. (c) A facility director or designee of a facility director shall immediately report to the parole division in writing if the director or designee believes that a pre-parolee has violated the terms of the pre-parolee's transfer agreement or the rules of the facility. The parole division may require an agent of the parole division or the community residential facility to conduct a hearing. (d) If the parole division has an administrative need to deliver the pre-parolee to the custody of the institutional division or if after a disciplinary hearing the parole division concurs that a violation has occurred, the parole division may deliver the pre-parolee to the actual custody of the institutional division and the institutional division may assign the pre-parolee to a regular unit of the institutional division. If the parole division recommends rescission or revision of the pre-parolee's presumptive parole date, a parole panel shall rescind or revise the date unless it determines the action is inappropriate. (e) Before a pre-parolee is transferred to a community residential facility under this section and before the pre-parolee is released on parole, the department may award good conduct time to the pre-parolee in the same amounts and in the same manner as the department awards good conduct time to inmates in the institutional division under Chapter 498 . Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Renumbered from Sec. 498.003 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.055, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by: Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1022 (S.B. 2405 ), Sec. 37, eff. September 1, 2025.
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