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House Bill 129 |
House Author: Berman et al. |
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Effective: 6-18-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Eltife et al. |
House Bill 129 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Health and Safety Code to expand purposes for which county jail inmate labor may be used to include maintenance projects for certain cemeteries that the commissioners court maintains using public funds. The bill also allows inmate labor to be used for maintenance and services provided to certain nonprofit organizations at the sheriff's request if the commissioners court determines that such an organization provides a public service to the county or to a political subdivision within the county. House Bill 129 provides that a county, at the discretion of the commissioners court, may permit the use of public funds, county employees, county inmate labor, and county equipment to open and close graves in a cemetery more than 50 years old. The bill deletes provisions that limited the use of public resources for maintenance activities of those older cemeteries to counties with a population of 40,000 or less.