Section 499.004 - 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 pardons and paroles division and shall obey the orders of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and the pardons and paroles division.(c) A facility director or designee of a facility director shall immediately report to the pardons and paroles 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 pardons and paroles division may require an agent of the pardons and paroles division or the community residential facility to conduct a hearing.(d) If the pardons and paroles division has an administrative need to deliver the pre-parolee to the custody of the institutional division or if after a disciplinary hearing the pardons and paroles division concurs that a violation has occurred, the pardons and paroles 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 pardons and paroles 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.Tex. Gov't. Code § 499.004
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.055, eff. 9/1/1995.Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. 9/1/1989. Renumbered from Sec. 498.003 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. 8/26/1991.