diff --git a/snntorch/_neurons/leakyparallel.py b/snntorch/_neurons/leakyparallel.py
index 2e92ff9a..5781a4d1 100644
--- a/snntorch/_neurons/leakyparallel.py
+++ b/snntorch/_neurons/leakyparallel.py
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ def __init__(
         
         self.rnn = nn.RNN(input_size, hidden_size, num_layers=1, nonlinearity='relu', 
                           bias=bias, batch_first=False, dropout=dropout, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+        self.beta = beta
         self._beta_buffer
         if self.beta is not None:
             self.beta = self.beta.clamp(0, 1) 
@@ -247,11 +248,11 @@ def backward(ctx, grad_output):
             return grad, None
         
     
-    def _beta_buffer(self, beta, learn_beta):
-        if not isinstance(beta, torch.Tensor):
-            beta = torch.as_tensor(beta)  # TODO: or .tensor() if no copy
+    def _beta_buffer(self, learn_beta):
+        if not isinstance(self.beta, torch.Tensor):
+            self.beta = torch.as_tensor(self.beta)  # TODO: or .tensor() if no copy
         if not learn_beta:
-            self.register_buffer("beta", beta)
+            self.register_buffer("beta", self.beta)
 
     def _graded_spikes_buffer(
     self, graded_spikes_factor, learn_graded_spikes_factor