By:  Brady                                            H.B. No. 2541
       73R6690 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to cooperative agreements between sheriffs, community
    1-3  supervision and corrections departments, and the institutional
    1-4  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the
    1-5  operation of work programs and community supervision programs.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-8  amended by adding Section 15 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 15.  COOPERATIVE WORK AGREEMENTS.  A department that
   1-10  operates a work program or community service program for
   1-11  probationers supervised by the department may cooperate with the
   1-12  sheriff of the county served by the department and with the
   1-13  institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   1-14  in the operation of a work program or community service program
   1-15  that uses the combined labor of probationers, persons under the
   1-16  supervision of the sheriff, and persons under the supervision of
   1-17  the institutional division.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Chapter 43, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-19  amended by adding Article 43.102 to read as follows:
   1-20        Art. 43.102.  COOPERATIVE WORK AGREEMENTS.  A sheriff who
   1-21  operates a work program or community service program for defendants
   1-22  confined in the county jail may cooperate with the community
   1-23  supervision and corrections department serving the county and with
   1-24  the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal
    2-1  Justice in the operation of a work program or community service
    2-2  program that uses the combined labor of persons under the
    2-3  supervision of the sheriff, probationers, and persons under the
    2-4  supervision of the institutional division.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Subchapter E, Chapter 497, Government Code, is
    2-6  amended by adding Section 497.096 to read as follows:
    2-7        Sec. 497.096.  COOPERATIVE WORK AGREEMENTS.  The
    2-8  institutional division may cooperate with a community supervision
    2-9  and corrections department that operates a work program or
   2-10  community service program for probationers supervised by the
   2-11  department and with a sheriff who operates a work program or
   2-12  community service program for defendants confined in the county
   2-13  jail in the operation of a work program or community service
   2-14  program that uses the combined labor of persons under the
   2-15  supervision of the institutional division, probationers, and
   2-16  persons under the supervision of the sheriff.
   2-17        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-23  passage, and it is so enacted.