By Janek H.B. No. 1056 74R3958 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting the provision of tobacco products in county 1-3 jails and other county correctional facilities; providing a 1-4 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) This section applies only to a county with a 1-10 population of 2.8 million or more. 1-11 (b) If the commissioners court of the county by order 1-12 prohibits smoking in a county jail or other county correctional 1-13 facility, a person, excluding an employee of the county sheriff's 1-14 department, commits an offense if the person provides to an inmate 1-15 of the jail or other facility any form of tobacco suitable for 1-16 smoking. 1-17 (c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. 1-18 (d) Notwithstanding Section 15.01(d), Penal Code, if a 1-19 person commits the offense of criminal attempt to commit an offense 1-20 under this section, the offense committed under Section 15.01 is a 1-21 Class B misdemeanor. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.