Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 261 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to authorize a county that transfers an inmate from the county jail to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide the department a copy of a final order from a court that dismisses as frivolous or malicious a lawsuit filed by the inmate while in the county jail awaiting transfer. It authorizes a sheriff to take away any part or all of a defendant's good conduct time on receipt of a final order from a court that dismisses as frivolous or malicious a lawsuit filed by the defendant while in custody of the sheriff.

            The act amends the Government Code to expand the definition of "final order" to include orders relating to lawsuits brought by certain inmates while confined in a county jail awaiting transfer to the department.