S.B. No. 175
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of the Commission on Jail Standards to
    1-2  regulate the temporary housing of county inmates in certain
    1-3  facilities to alleviate overcrowding in county jails.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 351, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 351.0035 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 351.0035.  TEMPORARY HOUSING.  (a)  On request of the
    1-8  sheriff and the commissioners court of a county, the Commission on
    1-9  Jail Standards shall authorize a county to house a prisoner in a
   1-10  tent or other facility that is not a county jail.
   1-11        (b)  The Commission on Jail Standards shall adopt rules that
   1-12  govern the temporary housing of prisoners, including a specific
   1-13  requirement for:
   1-14              (1)  the classification and separation of prisoners;
   1-15              (2)  the supervision of prisoners;
   1-16              (3)  safety, sanitation, and health;
   1-17              (4)  the structure and maintenance of the facility;
   1-18              (5)  the provision of bunks or sleeping areas for
   1-19  prisoners or other furnishings for the facility;
   1-20              (6)  the space and capacity in the facility; and
   1-21              (7)  the enforcement of a rule the commission adopts
   1-22  under this subsection.
   1-23        (c)  A rule adopted under Subsection (b) must be consistent
   1-24  with the jail standards imposed by or adopted under other
    2-1  provisions of this subchapter unless the Commission on Jail
    2-2  Standards determines compliance is not practicable or reasonable.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 351, Local Government Code,
    2-4  is amended by adding Section 351.0036 to read as follows:
    2-5        Sec. 351.0036.  HOUSING OF CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS.
    2-6  (a)  Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 351.0035, the
    2-7  Commission on Jail Standards is hereby authorized to adopt rules
    2-8  governing the temporary housing of prisoners in connection with
    2-9  specific correctional programs which include work camps, wilderness
   2-10  camps, forestry camps, or boot camps.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-17  passage, and it is so enacted.