By Nelson                                        S.B. No. 450

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to requiring that an out-of-state inmate housed in a

 1-3     correctional facility in this state be returned to the sending

 1-4     state before the inmate's release from imprisonment.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 495, Government Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 495.024 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 495.024.  RELEASE OF OUT-OF-STATE INMATES.  A county or

 1-9     a municipality or a private vendor operating a correctional

1-10     facility under a contract with a county under Subchapter F, Chapter

1-11     351, Local Government Code, or a municipality under Subchapter E,

1-12     Chapter 361, Local Government Code, that enters into a contract

1-13     with any entity to house in this state inmates convicted of

1-14     offenses committed against the laws of another state of the United

1-15     States must require as a condition of the contract that each inmate

1-16     to be released from custody must be released in the sending state.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

1-18     to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this

1-19     Act by a county, municipality, or private vendor.  A contract

1-20     entered into before the effective date of this Act is covered by

1-21     the law in effect when the contract was entered into, and the

1-22     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.