73R4730 GWK-F
          By Stiles                                             H.B. No. 1116
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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:
   1-19              (1)  under the circumstances described by Subsection
   1-20  (b); or
   1-21              (2)  if the inmates are participants in correctional
   1-22  programs such as work camps, wilderness camps, forestry camps, or
   1-23  boot camps, operated by the division or for the division under
   1-24  contract, and:
    2-1                    (A)  the division defines in writing the purposes
    2-2  of the program and establishes a maximum capacity for each tent or
    2-3  tent-like structure used to house participants in the program;
    2-4                    (B)  the board makes an affirmative finding that
    2-5  the use of tents or tent-like structures to house participants is
    2-6  cost-effective; and
    2-7                    (C)  the state fire marshal certifies that the
    2-8  tents or tent-like structures are fire-safe at the maximum
    2-9  capacities established by the division under Subdivision (2)(A).
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.
   2-17                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   2-18        Amend H.B. No. 1116 on page 1 by striking lines 23 and 24 and
   2-19  substituting the following:
   2-20  "boot camps, when those structures are practicable and appropriate
   2-21  for the particular program, and:"
   2-22                                                               Conley