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.