Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 501.104. Strategic Plan for Rehabilitation and Reentry Programs

(a) In this section, “parole-voted program” has the meaning assigned by Section 508.1521.

(b) The department and the Windham School District shall jointly develop a strategic plan for the provision of rehabilitation and reentry programs to inmates.  The strategic plan must include program objectives and timelines intended to:

(b-1) The strategic plan must include clear steps and timelines to reduce, by September 1, 2027, overall parole-voted program placement timelines by at least 50 percent compared to the timelines on August 31, 2023.  This subsection expires December 31, 2027.

(c) In developing the strategic plan, the department shall evaluate therapeutic service contracts and obligations and renegotiate the contracts and obligations as necessary to meet current and projected program needs.

(d) The department and the Windham School District shall jointly update the strategic plan at least once every five years.

(e) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the department and the Windham School District shall submit a joint report on the implementation of the strategic plan to the board, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and each standing committee of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over the department.

(f) In preparing the report under Subsection (e), the department and the Windham School District shall consider the most recent report prepared under Section 501.103.