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.