By Patterson S.B. No. 1220
75R8995 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of inmate and probationer labor for state
1-3 highway system projects.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 223.044, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 223.044. INMATE OR PROBATIONER LABOR FOR IMPROVEMENT
1-8 PROJECTS. (a) The commission and a criminal justice agency may
1-9 contract [with the Texas Board of Criminal Justice] for the
1-10 provision of inmate or probationer labor for a state highway system
1-11 improvement project.
1-12 (b) The contract must be made in conformity with Chapter
1-13 771, Government Code.
1-14 (c) In this section, "criminal justice agency" includes:
1-15 (1) the Texas Board of Criminal Justice;
1-16 (2) a community supervision and corrections department
1-17 established under Chapter 76, Government Code; and
1-18 (3) a sheriff's department operating:
1-19 (A) a county farm or workhouse established under
1-20 Article 43.10, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
1-21 (B) a county correctional center established
1-22 under Section 351.181, Local Government Code.
1-23 SECTION 2. 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.