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         By Hinojosa                                           H.B. No. 1693

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1693:

         By Allen                                          C.S.H.B. No. 1693

                                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.