1-1 By: Stiles, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 1116
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1993;
1-3 March 30, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 5, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
1-6 May 5, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Whitmire x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Nelson x
1-12 Sibley x
1-13 Sims x
1-14 Turner x
1-15 West x
1-16 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1116 By: Whitmire
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the use of temporary housing for certain inmates of the
1-20 institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Section 501.111, Government Code, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 Sec. 501.111. Temporary Housing <PROHIBITED>. (a) Except
1-25 as provided by Subsection (b) and Subsection (c), the institutional
1-26 division may not house inmates in tents, cellblock runs, hallways,
1-27 laundry distribution rooms, converted dayroom space, gymnasiums, or
1-28 any other facilities not specifically built for housing.
1-29 (b) Temporary housing may be used to house roving inmate
1-30 construction crews and inmates temporarily displaced because of
1-31 housing renovation, fire, natural disaster, riot or hostage
1-32 situations, if the institutional division provides those inmates
1-33 with reasonable sanitary hygiene facilities.
1-34 (c) The institutional division may house inmates in tents or
1-35 tent-like structures unless prohibited by federal law or a specific
1-36 court order.
1-37 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-42 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-43 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-44 * * * * *
1-45 Austin,
1-46 Texas
1-47 May 5, 1993
1-48 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-49 President of the Senate
1-50 Sir:
1-51 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-52 No. 1116, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-53 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-54 that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
1-55 lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
1-56 Whitmire,
1-57 Chairman
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 WITNESSES
1-60 FOR AGAINST ON
1-61 ___________________________________________________________________
1-62 Name: Nancy Juren x
1-63 Representing: Attorney General
1-64 City: Austin
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