1-1  By:  Shapiro, Sims                                    S.B. No. 1168
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to requirements for the segregation of classes of inmates
    1-9  in county jails and for capacities in county jails.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 511.009, Government Code,
   1-12  is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  The commission shall:
   1-14              (1)  adopt reasonable rules and procedures establishing
   1-15  minimum standards for the construction, equipment, maintenance, and
   1-16  operation of county jails;
   1-17              (2)  adopt reasonable rules and procedures establishing
   1-18  minimum standards for the custody, care, and treatment of
   1-19  prisoners;
   1-20              (3)  adopt reasonable rules establishing minimum
   1-21  standards for the number of jail supervisory personnel and for
   1-22  programs and services to meet the needs of prisoners;
   1-23              (4)  adopt reasonable rules and procedures establishing
   1-24  minimum requirements for programs of rehabilitation, education, and
   1-25  recreation in county jails;
   1-26              (5)  revise, amend, or change rules and procedures if
   1-27  necessary;
   1-28              (6)  provide to local government officials consultation
   1-29  on and technical assistance for county jails;
   1-30              (7)  review and comment on plans for the construction
   1-31  and major modification or renovation of county jails;
   1-32              (8)  require that the sheriff and commissioners of each
   1-33  county submit to the commission, on a form prescribed by the
   1-34  commission, an annual report on the conditions in each county jail
   1-35  within their jurisdiction, including all information necessary to
   1-36  determine compliance with state law, commission orders, and the
   1-37  rules adopted under this chapter;
   1-38              (9)  review the reports submitted under Subdivision (8)
   1-39  and require commission employees to inspect county jails regularly
   1-40  to ensure compliance with state law, commission orders, and rules
   1-41  and procedures adopted under this chapter; <and>
   1-42              (10)  at least annually determine whether each county
   1-43  jail is in compliance with the rules and procedures adopted under
   1-44  this chapter; and
   1-45              (11)  adopt rules relating to requirements for
   1-46  segregation of classes of inmates and to capacities for county
   1-47  jails.
   1-48        SECTION 2.  Sections 351.005 and 351.006, Local Government
   1-49  Code, are repealed.
   1-50        SECTION 3.  The Commission on Jail Standards shall adopt
   1-51  rules required to be adopted under Subsection (a), Section 511.009,
   1-52  Government Code, as amended by this Act, not later than the 90th
   1-53  day after the effective date of this Act.
   1-54        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-55  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-56  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-57  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-58  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-59  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-60  passage, and it is so enacted.
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