By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1693 75R6266 GWK-D 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 to house county 1-11 jail inmates who do not have a history of violent behavior and who 1-12 have not shown a pattern of violent or assaultive behavior in 1-13 county jail and enter into a contract with the commissioners court 1-14 of a county to house those inmates, but only if: 1-15 (1) the designation does not deny placement in a state 1-16 jail felony facility of defendants required to serve terms of 1-17 confinement in a facility following conviction of state jail 1-18 felonies; and 1-19 (2) the county jail inmates, to the extent 1-20 practicable, may be segregated from other inmates confined in the 1-21 facility. 1-22 (b) A county for which the state jail division confines 1-23 county jail inmates under this section may not enter into a 1-24 contract with another county or another state to house inmates from 2-1 the other county or state in the county jail or any correctional 2-2 facility operated by or under contract with the county. 2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.