1-1  By:  Hightower (Senate Sponsor - Montford)            H.B. No. 2278
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1995;
    1-3  April 19, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Criminal Justice; May 10, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
    1-6  May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2278                By:  Whitmire
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the transfer of certain facilities between state
   1-11  agencies.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is
   1-14  amended by adding Section 496.0031 to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 496.0031.  TRANSFER OF FACILITIES.  (a)  The department
   1-16  may transfer a correctional facility to another agency of the
   1-17  state, and the agency receiving the facilities subsequently may
   1-18  transfer the facility back to the department.
   1-19        (b)  A transfer under this section requires the agreement of
   1-20  the board and the governing body of the agency receiving the
   1-21  correctional facility or returning the correctional facility to the
   1-22  department, both as to the identity of the facility to be
   1-23  transferred and to the method of transfer.
   1-24        (c)  In this section, "transfer" means to convey title to,
   1-25  lease, or otherwise convey the beneficial use of a correctional
   1-26  facility and land appurtenant to the facility.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 551, Health and Safety
   1-28  Code, is amended by adding Section 551.008 to read as follows:
   1-29        Sec. 551.008.  TRANSFER OF FACILITIES.  (a)  The department
   1-30  may transfer the South Campus of the Vernon State Hospital to the
   1-31  Texas Youth Commission contingent upon the agreement of the
   1-32  governing board of the department and the governing board of the
   1-33  Texas Youth Commission.
   1-34        (b)  In this section, "transfer" means to convey title to,
   1-35  lease, or otherwise convey the beneficial use of facilities,
   1-36  equipment and land appurtenant to the facilities.
   1-37        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-42  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-43  passage, and it is so enacted.
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