By Place H.B. No. 2827
75R6216 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to procedures applicable to an investigation involving the
1-3 death of an inmate imprisoned in a facility operated by or under
1-4 contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Article 49.18, Code of Criminal
1-7 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (c) Subsection (a) [This article] does not apply to a death
1-9 that occurs in a facility operated by or under contract with the
1-10 Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Subsection (b) does not
1-11 apply to a death that occurs in a facility operated by or under
1-12 contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if the death
1-13 occurs under circumstances described by Section 501.055(b),
1-14 Government Code.
1-15 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-16 to the investigation of the death of an inmate who dies on or after
1-17 the effective date of this Act. The investigation of the death of
1-18 an inmate who dies before the effective date of this Act is covered
1-19 by the law in effect when the inmate died, and the former law is
1-20 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.