By Hightower H.B. No. 2278 74R5264 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the transfer of certain facilities from the Texas 1-3 Department of Criminal Justice to other state agencies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 496.0031 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 496.0031. TRANSFER OF FACILITIES. (a) The department 1-8 may transfer a correctional facility to another agency of the 1-9 state, and the agency receiving the facility subsequently may 1-10 transfer the facility back to the department. 1-11 (b) A transfer under this section requires the agreement of 1-12 the board and the governing body of the agency receiving the 1-13 correctional facility or returning the correctional facility to the 1-14 department, both as to the identity of the facility to be 1-15 transferred and to the method of transfer. 1-16 (c) An employee of the department who is employed at a 1-17 correctional facility transferred under this section is entitled to 1-18 priority for employment and training by the agency that receives 1-19 transfer of the correctional facility. If as a result of the 1-20 priority established by this subsection, an employee of the 1-21 department becomes an employee of the agency that receives transfer 1-22 of the correctional facility, the employee, on employment with the 1-23 receiving agency, is entitled to retain the salary and benefits 1-24 available to employees of the department. 2-1 (d) In this section, "transfer" means to convey title to, 2-2 lease, or otherwise convey the beneficial use of a correctional 2-3 facility and land appurtenant to the facility. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.