Section 508.150 - Consecutive Felony Sentences(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.(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:(1) when the actual calendar time served by the inmate equals the sentence imposed by the court; or(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.(c) A parole panel may not: (1) consider consecutive sentences as a single sentence for purposes of parole; or(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.(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: (1) for the same purpose in determining that date in a subsequent sentence in the same series of consecutive sentences; or(2) for determining the date an inmate becomes eligible for release on parole from the last sentence in a series of consecutive sentences.Tex. Gov't. Code § 508.150
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.01, eff. 9/1/1997.