SGN H.B. 2827 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


CORRECTIONS
H.B. 2827
By: Place
4-2-97
Committee Report (Unamended)


BACKGROUND 

The requirement that TDCJ report inmate deaths to the Attorney General's
Office was inadvertently deleted last session. 

PURPOSE

H.B. 2827, if enacted, would require the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice to report inmate deaths, other than deaths attributable to natural
causes or deaths due to legal execution, to the Attorney General's Office. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.   Amends Subsection (c), Article 49.18, Code of Criminal
Procedure, by adding language to state that 49.18(b), CCP, does not apply
to a death that occurs in a facility that is operated by or under contract
to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, if the death occurs under
circumstances outlined in Section 501.055(b), Government Code. 

SECTION 2.  Applies only to the death of an inmate that occurs on or after
the effective date of the Act. 

SECTION 3.   Emergency clause.