74R9729 PAM-D By Janek H.B. No. 1056 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1056: By Chisum C.S.H.B. No. 1056 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting smoking and the provision of tobacco 1-3 products in county jails and other county correctional facilities; 1-4 providing a penalty. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 351, Local Government 1-7 Code, is amended by adding Section 351.903 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 351.903. PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES IN CERTAIN COUNTY JAIL 1-9 FACILITIES. (a) The sheriff of a county may prohibit smoking in a 1-10 county jail or other county correctional facility. 1-11 (b) If the sheriff prohibits smoking under this section, a 1-12 person commits an offense if the person provides to an inmate of 1-13 the jail or other facility any form of tobacco suitable for 1-14 smoking. 1-15 (c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. 1-16 (d) Notwithstanding Section 15.01(d), Penal Code, if a 1-17 person commits the offense of criminal attempt to commit an offense 1-18 under this section, the offense committed under Section 15.01 is a 1-19 Class C misdemeanor. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.