1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 932 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 1995; March 7, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 May 11, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, 1-5 Nays 1; May 11, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the availability of weight-lifting equipment to inmates 1-9 and defendants confined in a correctional facility. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Section 493.014 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 493.014. WEIGHT-LIFTING EQUIPMENT. (a) The 1-14 department: 1-15 (1) may not allow an inmate or a defendant confined in 1-16 a facility operated by the department access to weight-lifting 1-17 equipment or accessories; and 1-18 (2) shall inform each entity contracting with the 1-19 department for the operation or management of a facility that 1-20 inmates confined in the facility are not permitted to have access 1-21 to weight-lifting equipment or accessories. 1-22 (b) The department shall notify the General Services 1-23 Commission that all weight-lifting equipment and accessories owned 1-24 by the department are surplus property to be disposed of as 1-25 provided by Article 9, State Purchasing and General Services Act 1-26 (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), except that proceeds 1-27 received from disposition of the equipment and accessories under 1-28 this section may be used only to pay costs incurred by the 1-29 department in providing other recreational facilities and equipment 1-30 to inmates and defendants in the custody of the department. 1-31 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, 1-32 is amended by adding Section 351.045 to read as follows: 1-33 Sec. 351.045. WEIGHT-LIFTING EQUIPMENT. The sheriff or jail 1-34 administrator, as appropriate, may not allow a prisoner committed 1-35 to the county jail access to weight-lifting equipment or 1-36 accessories. 1-37 SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, 1-38 is amended by adding Section 351.105 to read as follows: 1-39 Sec. 351.105. WEIGHT-LIFTING EQUIPMENT. The sheriff may 1-40 approve a contract to operate a facility under Section 351.101 or 1-41 Section 351.102 only if the contract provides that the private 1-42 vendor may not allow a prisoner confined in the facility access to 1-43 weight-lifting equipment or accessories. 1-44 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-50 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-51 * * * * *