By:  Parker                                           S.B. No. 1329
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the administration of county jails.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 351.0415, Local
    1-4  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  The sheriff of a county <with a population of under
    1-6  1,000,000 according to the last federal census> may operate, or
    1-7  contract with another person to operate, a commissary for the use
    1-8  of the prisoners committed to the county jail.  The commissary must
    1-9  be operated in accordance with rules adopted by the Commission on
   1-10  Jail Standards.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  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.