By:  West                                              S.B. No. 565
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to prohibiting the transfer of inmates who are serving
    1-2  sentences for violent offenses to state jail felony facilities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 507.006, Government Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  An inmate may not be transferred to a state jail felony
    1-7  facility if the judgment for the offense for which the inmate is
    1-8  serving a sentence contains an affirmative finding under Section
    1-9  3g(a)(2), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or if the
   1-10  prisoner is serving a sentence for:
   1-11              (1)  a first degree felony under Section 19.02, Penal
   1-12  Code (murder);
   1-13              (2)  a capital felony under Section 19.03, Penal Code
   1-14  (capital murder);
   1-15              (3)  a first degree felony or a second degree felony
   1-16  under Section 20.04, Penal Code (aggravated kidnapping);
   1-17              (4)  a second degree felony under Section 22.011, Penal
   1-18  Code (sexual assault);
   1-19              (5)  a second degree or first degree felony under
   1-20  Section 22.02, Penal Code (aggravated assault);
   1-21              (6)  a first degree felony under Section 22.021, Penal
   1-22  Code (aggravated sexual assault);
   1-23              (7)  a first degree felony under Section 22.04, Penal
    2-1  Code (injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled
    2-2  individual);
    2-3              (8)  a first degree felony under Section 28.02, Penal
    2-4  Code (arson);
    2-5              (9)  a second degree felony under Section 29.02, Penal
    2-6  Code (robbery);
    2-7              (10)  a first degree felony under Section 29.03, Penal
    2-8  Code (aggravated robbery);
    2-9              (11)  a first degree felony under Section 30.02, Penal
   2-10  Code (burglary), if the offense is punished under Subsection (d) of
   2-11  that section; or
   2-12              (12)  a felony for which the punishment is increased
   2-13  under Section 481.134, Health and Safety Code (Drug-Free Zones).
   2-14        (d)  This section expires September 1, 1997.
   2-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-21  passage, and it is so enacted.