By McClendon, et al. H.B. No. 485 75R3697 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring that an out-of-state inmate housed in a 1-3 correctional facility in this state be returned to the sending 1-4 state before the inmate's release from imprisonment. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 495, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 495.024 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 495.024. RELEASE OF OUT-OF-STATE INMATES. A county or 1-9 a municipality or a private vendor operating a correctional 1-10 facility under a contract with a county under Subchapter F, Chapter 1-11 351, Local Government Code, or a municipality under Subchapter E, 1-12 Chapter 361, Local Government Code, that enters into a contract 1-13 with any entity to house in this state inmates convicted of 1-14 offenses committed against the laws of another state of the United 1-15 States must require as a condition of the contract that each inmate 1-16 to be released from custody must be released in the sending state. 1-17 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-18 to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this 1-19 Act by a county, municipality, or private vendor. A contract 1-20 entered into before the effective date of this Act is covered by 1-21 the law in effect when the contract was entered into, and the 1-22 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.