1-1 By: McClendon, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 485 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 6, 1997; 1-3 March 12, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; April 30, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 30, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to requiring that an out-of-state inmate housed in a 1-9 correctional facility in this state be returned to the sending 1-10 state before the inmate's release from imprisonment. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 495, Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 495.024 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 495.024. RELEASE OF OUT-OF-STATE INMATES. A county or 1-15 a municipality or a private vendor operating a correctional 1-16 facility under a contract with a county under Subchapter F, Chapter 1-17 351, Local Government Code, or a municipality under Subchapter E, 1-18 Chapter 361, Local Government Code, that enters into a contract 1-19 with any entity to house in this state inmates convicted of 1-20 offenses committed against the laws of another state of the United 1-21 States must require as a condition of the contract that each inmate 1-22 to be released from custody must be released in the sending state. 1-23 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-24 to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this 1-25 Act by a county, municipality, or private vendor. A contract 1-26 entered into before the effective date of this Act is covered by 1-27 the law in effect when the contract was entered into, and the 1-28 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-35 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-36 * * * * *