By Solomons H.B. No. 341 75R2890 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring the state to reimburse counties for the costs 1-3 of confining certain state inmates. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 104.002, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) A county that confines in the county jail an inmate who 1-8 is the subject of a warrant issued under Section 13, Article 42.18, 1-9 or an inmate who is awaiting transfer to the Texas Department of 1-10 Criminal Justice after a determination by a parole panel or a 1-11 designee of the Board of Pardons and Paroles under Section 14, 1-12 Article 42.18, is entitled to receive compensation from the state 1-13 for each day the inmate is confined in the county jail, other than 1-14 the first two days after the date on which the county informs the 1-15 department that the inmate is confined in the jail. On the first 1-16 day of each quarter of a county's fiscal year, the county judge 1-17 shall certify to the comptroller of public accounts each inmate 1-18 and, for each inmate, the number of days during the preceding 1-19 fiscal quarter for which the county is entitled to compensation 1-20 under this subsection. The comptroller shall issue to the 1-21 commissioners court of the county a warrant in an amount computed 1-22 for the preceding fiscal quarter by multiplying $35 by the total 1-23 number of days certified by the county judge for all inmates or, if 1-24 the comptroller determines that the total number of days certified 2-1 by the county judge is inaccurate, by the total number of days 2-2 determined by the comptroller to be an accurate statement of days 2-3 to which the county is entitled to compensation. 2-4 SECTION 2. A county is entitled to compensation from the 2-5 state under Article 104.002(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, as 2-6 added by this Act, only for the confinement of inmates on or after 2-7 the effective date of this Act. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.