Tex. Gov't Code § 508.315 · Subchapter J. MISCELLANEOUS
ELECTRONIC MONITORING PROGRAMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To establish and maintain an electronic monitoring program under this chapter, the department may:
(1) fund an electronic monitoring program in a parole office;
(2) develop standards for the operation of an electronic monitoring program in a parole office; and
(3) fund the purchase, lease, or maintenance of electronic monitoring equipment.
(b) In determining whether electronic monitoring equipment should be leased or purchased, the department shall consider the rate at which technological change makes electronic monitoring equipment obsolete.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.508.htm
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