HBA-CMT H.B. 2800 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2800 By: Hodge Corrections 3/25/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, once good conduct time has been revoked for a disciplinary offense, an inmate can not gain the time back through cooperation or good behavior. In an effort to offer wardens a tool to better ensure inmate cooperation and compliance, House Bill 2800 authorizes the restoration of good conduct time at the discretion of the Department of Criminal Justice. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS House Bill 2800 amends the Government Code to authorize the Department of Criminal Justice to restore good conduct time to an inmate who forfeited the time by committing an offense or violating a rule of the institutional division or transfer facility and to an inmate who forfeited good conduct time on a revocation of parole or mandatory supervision. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2001.