Amend HB 1230 on third reading by inserting the following
appropriately numbered section and by renumbering the subsequent
sections of the bill accordingly:
      SECTION ___.   (a)  In this section:
            (1)  "Criminal detention facility" means a place
designated by law for the confinement of a person adjudicated
delinquent for or convicted of a criminal offense.  The term
includes:
                  (A)  a confinement facility operated by the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice;
                  (B)  a confinement facility operated under
contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice;
                  (C)  a community corrections facility operated by
a community supervision and corrections department; and
                  (D)  a confinement facility operated by or under
contract with the Texas Youth Commission.
            (2)  "Governmental entity" means the state, a political
subdivision or a combination of two or more subdivisions of the
state, or an agency of the state.
      (b)  A governmental entity or private vendor may not change
the use of a criminal detention facility operated by the entity or
vendor from a residential facility for the placement of juvenile
offenders and may not establish a criminal detention facility
unless:
            (1)  a public hearing is held about the proposed change
or establishment before the change is made or the facility is
established; and
            (2)  after the hearing is held, the change or
establishment is approved by unanimous vote of the governing body
of:
                  (A)  the municipality in which the facility is or
will be located; or
                  (B)  the county in which the facility is or will
be located, if the facility is not or will not be located within a
municipality.
      (c)  Before the 30th day before the date of a hearing
required by Subsection (b) of this section, the governmental entity
shall:
            (1)  publish notice of the date, hour, place, and
subject of the hearing in three consecutive issues of a newspaper
of, or in newspapers that collectively have, general circulation in
the county in which the proposed change is to be made or the
facility is to be established; and
            (2)  mail a copy of the notice to each member of the
governing body of a municipality, county commissioner, state
representative, and state senator who represents the area in which
the proposed change is to be made or the facility is to be
established.
      (d)  In describing the subject of a public hearing for
purposes of publishing notice under this section, the notice must
specifically state the address of the facility with respect to
which the change is proposed or the address at which the facility
is to be established.
      (e)  If a private vendor, other than a private vendor that
operates as a nonprofit corporation, proposes to change the use of
a facility or to establish a facility that is the subject of a
public hearing under this section, the private vendor is
responsible for providing the notice and holding the public hearing
required by this section.
      (f)  The governmental entity or private vendor shall hold the
public hearing at a site as close as practicable to the facility
with respect to which the change is proposed or as close as
practicable to the site of the proposed facility.