{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-government-code-508.150","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Government Code § 508.150","heading":"CONSECUTIVE FELONY SENTENCES.","body":"(a) If an inmate is sentenced to consecutive felony sentences under Article 42.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, a parole panel shall designate during each sentence the date, if any, the inmate would have been eligible for release on parole if the inmate had been sentenced to serve a single sentence.\n(b) For the purposes of Article 42.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, the judgment and sentence of an inmate sentenced for a felony, other than the last sentence in a series of consecutive sentences, cease to operate:\n(1) when the actual calendar time served by the inmate equals the sentence imposed by the court; or\n(2) on the date a parole panel designates as the date the inmate would have been eligible for release on parole if the inmate had been sentenced to serve a single sentence.\n(c) A parole panel may not:\n(1) consider consecutive sentences as a single sentence for purposes of parole; or\n(2) release on parole an inmate sentenced to serve consecutive felony sentences before the date the inmate becomes eligible for release on parole from the last sentence imposed on the inmate.\n(d) A parole panel may not use calendar time served and good conduct time accrued by an inmate that are used by the panel in determining when a judgment and sentence cease to operate:\n(1) for the same purpose in determining that date in a subsequent sentence in the same series of consecutive sentences; or\n(2) for determining the date an inmate becomes eligible for release on parole from the last sentence in a series of consecutive sentences.\nAdded by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.","path":["GOVERNMENT CODE","TITLE 4. EXECUTIVE BRANCH","SUBTITLE G. CORRECTIONS","CHAPTER 508. PAROLE AND MANDATORY SUPERVISION","SUBCHAPTER E. PAROLE AND MANDATORY SUPERVISION; RELEASE PROCEDURES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.508.htm#508.150","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:16Z","sha256":"7f1e7d2422a41c6aa5042e5b91baf488185fce71dbc9f6471e2641bc7b6c8840","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-government-code-508.149","next":"us-tx/tex.-government-code-508.151"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}