By Barrientos                                         S.B. No. 1191
       74R8071 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the participation of certain convicted felons in county
    1-3  jail work release programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1(a), Article 42.031, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)(1)  The sheriff of each county may attempt to secure
    1-8  employment for each defendant sentenced to the county jail work
    1-9  release program under Article 42.034 of this code and, except as
   1-10  provided by Subdivision (2) of this subsection, each defendant
   1-11  confined in the county jail awaiting transfer to the institutional
   1-12  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
   1-13              (2)  This article does not apply to a defendant
   1-14  confined in the county jail awaiting transfer to the institutional
   1-15  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after
   1-16  conviction of a felony under Title 5, Penal Code, Chapter 29, Penal
   1-17  Code, Section 38.06, 38.07, 38.09, 38.11, or 38.113, Penal Code, or
   1-18  Section 49.04, Penal Code, if the offense under Section 49.04 is
   1-19  punishable under Section 49.09, Penal Code.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.