TITLE: Relating to a warden or certain facility employees providing information or a recommendation to a parole panel regarding an inmate eligible for parole.

SUMMARY: Relating to a warden or certain facility employees providing information or a recommendation to a parole panel regarding an inmate eligible for parole.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to a warden or certain facility employees providing information or a recommendation to a parole panel regarding an inmate eligible for parole. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 508, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 508.1451 to read as follows: Sec. 508.1451. INFORMATION REGARDING PAROLE-ELIGIBLE INMATE. The board shall develop and implement a policy to allow a warden or other senior employee of a facility operated by or under contract with the department to provide to the parole panel considering an inmate's release on parole information regarding the inmate's behavior and general progress while imprisoned in that facility. The policy must allow the warden or employee to recommend to the parole panel that the inmate be released on parole. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.