By Longoria H.B. No. 3022
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the purposes for which a county jail industries program
1-3 may be established.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 351.201(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The purposes for which a county jail industries program
1-8 may be established are to:
1-9 (1) provide adequate, regular, and suitable employment
1-10 for the vocational training of inmates;
1-11 (2) reimburse the county for expenses caused by the
1-12 crimes of inmates and the cost of their confinement; or
1-13 (3) provide for the distribution of articles and
1-14 products produced under this subchapter to:
1-15 (A) offices of the county and offices of
1-16 political subdivisions located in <whole or in part in> the
1-17 <county> state; and
1-18 (B) nonprofit organizations that provide
1-19 services to the general public and enhance social welfare and the
1-20 general well-being of the community;
1-21 (C) Texas based businesses.
1-22 SECTION 2. The effective date of this act shall be September
1-23 1, 1995.
2-1 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-2 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.