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.