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.