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.