By Allen                                                H.B. No. 13
       74R383 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of state jail felony facilities for housing
    1-3  inmates eligible for confinement in transfer facilities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 507.006(a), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
    1-8  the state jail division, with the approval of the board, may
    1-9  designate one or more state jail felony facilities to house inmates
   1-10  who are eligible for confinement in a transfer facility under
   1-11  Section 499.152, but only if:
   1-12              (1)  the designation does not deny placement in a state
   1-13  jail felony facility of defendants required to serve terms of
   1-14  confinement in a facility following conviction of state jail
   1-15  felonies; and
   1-16              (2)  the designation is approved by:
   1-17                    (A)  the commissioners court of the county in
   1-18  which the state jail felony facility is located; and
   1-19                    (B)  the governing body of any municipality in
   1-20  which the state jail felony facility is located.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  If before the effective date of this Act the
   1-22  state jail division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   1-23  designates a state jail felony facility to house inmates who are
   1-24  eligible for confinement in a transfer facility, the designation
    2-1  expires on the 31st day after the effective date of this Act,
    2-2  unless before the 31st day the commissioners court and governing
    2-3  body of any municipality whose approval is required by Section
    2-4  507.006(a), Government Code, as amended by this Act, approve the
    2-5  designation.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.