By Nelson S.B. No. 37 75R1624 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to 1-3 provide maximum flexibility to the department in the use of space 1-4 and programs. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 496.0032 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 496.0032. FLEXIBILITY IN USING SPACE AND PROGRAMS. The 1-9 board may adopt rules to permit the department to use space within 1-10 the department and programs provided by the department in a manner 1-11 that maximizes the number of inmates that can efficiently be housed 1-12 by the department without building new units. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.