SRC-SLL S.B. 630 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 630
By: Duncan
Finance
2-20-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, Texas counties are not entitled to compensation from the state
for the costs of confining certain state inmates.  This bill will require
the state to reimburse counties for the costs of confining certain state
inmates. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 630 requires the state to reimburse counties for the
costs of confining certain state inmates. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Article 104.002, Code of Criminal Procedure, to provide
that a county that confines in the county jail certain inmates is entitled
to receive compensation from the state for each day the inmate is confined
in the county jail, other than the first 10 days after the date on which
the county informs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice that the
inmate is confined in the jail. Requires the county judge to certify to
the comptroller of public accounts, on the first day of each quarter of a
county's fiscal year, each inmate and, for each inmate, the number of days
during the preceding fiscal quarter for which the county is entitled to
compensation under this subsection. Requires the comptroller to issue to
the commissioners court of the county a warrant in an amount computed for
the preceding fiscal quarter by using a certain formula.  Defines "average
daily inmate cost." 

SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.