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.