By Wentworth S.B. No. 932 74R6412 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the availability of weight-lifting equipment to inmates 1-3 and defendants confined in a correctional facility. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 493.014 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 493.014. WEIGHT-LIFTING EQUIPMENT. (a) The 1-8 department: 1-9 (1) may not allow an inmate or defendant confined in a 1-10 facility operated by the department access to weight-lifting 1-11 equipment or accessories; and 1-12 (2) shall inform each entity contracting with the 1-13 department for the operation or management of a facility that 1-14 inmates confined in the facility are not permitted to have access 1-15 to weight-lifting equipment or accessories. 1-16 (b) The department shall notify the General Services 1-17 Commission that all weight-lifting equipment and accessories owned 1-18 by the department are surplus property to be disposed of as 1-19 provided by Article 9, State Purchasing and General Services Act 1-20 (Article 601b, Revised Statutes), except that proceeds received 1-21 from disposition of the equipment and accessories under this 1-22 section may be used only to pay costs incurred by the department in 1-23 providing other recreational facilities and equipment to inmates 1-24 and defendants in the custody of the department. 2-1 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, 2-2 is amended by adding Section 351.045 to read as follows: 2-3 Sec. 351.045. WEIGHT-LIFTING EQUIPMENT. The sheriff or jail 2-4 administrator, as appropriate, may not allow a prisoner committed 2-5 to the county jail access to weight-lifting equipment or 2-6 accessories. 2-7 SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, 2-8 is amended by adding Section 351.105 to read as follows: 2-9 Sec. 351.105. WEIGHT-LIFTING EQUIPMENT. The sheriff may 2-10 approve a contract to operate a facility under Section 351.101 or 2-11 Section 351.102 only if the contract provides that the private 2-12 vendor may not allow a prisoner confined in the facility access to 2-13 weight-lifting equipment or accessories. 2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.