H.B. No. 1116
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of temporary housing for certain inmates of the
1-3 institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 501.111, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 501.111. Temporary Housing <PROHIBITED>. (a) Except
1-8 as provided by Subsection (b) and Subsection (c), the institutional
1-9 division may not house inmates in tents, cellblock runs, hallways,
1-10 laundry distribution rooms, converted dayroom space, gymnasiums, or
1-11 any other facilities not specifically built for housing.
1-12 (b) Temporary housing may be used to house roving inmate
1-13 construction crews and inmates temporarily displaced only because
1-14 of housing renovation, fire, natural disaster, riot or hostage
1-15 situations, if the institutional division provides those inmates
1-16 with reasonable sanitary hygiene facilities.
1-17 (c) The institutional division may house inmates in tents or
1-18 tent-like structures unless prohibited by federal law or a specific
1-19 court order.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.