By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1693 75R11674 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the state jail division of the Texas 1-3 Department of Criminal Justice to house county jail inmates in a 1-4 state jail felony facility. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 507, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 507.007 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 507.007. USE OF FACILITY FOR COUNTY JAIL INMATES. 1-9 (a) The state jail division, with the approval of the board, may 1-10 designate one or more state jail felony facilities or a portion of 1-11 one or more state jail felony facilities to house county jail 1-12 inmates and enter into a contract with the commissioners court of a 1-13 county to house those inmates, but only if: 1-14 (1) the designation does not deny placement in a state 1-15 jail felony facility of defendants required to serve terms of 1-16 confinement in a facility following conviction of state jail 1-17 felonies; 1-18 (2) the county jail inmates, to the extent 1-19 practicable, will be segregated from other inmates confined in the 1-20 facility; and 1-21 (3) the facility will house county jail inmates who do 1-22 not have a history of violent or assaultive behavior in county 1-23 jail. 1-24 (b) A county for which the state jail division confines 2-1 county jail inmates under this section may not enter into a 2-2 contract with another county or another state to house inmates from 2-3 the other county or state in the county jail or any correctional 2-4 facility operated by or under contract with the county. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.