By Hightower                                          H.B. No. 2444
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the financing of correctional facilities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 361.054(h), Subchapter D, Chapter 361,
    1-5  Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (h)  An entity may not use proceeds from the sale of
    1-7  obligations under this subchapter to acquire, construct, equip, or
    1-8  enlarge a correctional facility unless the facility complies with
    1-9  federal constitutional standards and applicable court orders. <and
   1-10  receives and retains, as an individual facility, accreditation from
   1-11  American Correctional Association>
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.