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.