By Hinojosa H.B. No. 594
76R2552 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of proceeds from a commissary at a county jail.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 351.0415(c), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) The sheriff may use commissary proceeds only to:
1-7 (1) fund, staff, and equip a program addressing the
1-8 social needs of the county prisoners, including an educational or
1-9 recreational program and religious or rehabilitative counseling;
1-10 (2) supply county prisoners with clothing, writing
1-11 materials, and hygiene supplies;
1-12 (3) establish, staff, and equip the commissary
1-13 operation; [or]
1-14 (4) fund, staff, and equip a library for the
1-15 educational use of county prisoners;
1-16 (5) purchase a vehicle for use in connection with the
1-17 operation of the county jail; or
1-18 (6) expand the county jail by constructing or
1-19 purchasing a building, including a portable building.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to the use of commissary
1-21 proceeds from a commissary operated at a county jail on or after
1-22 the first day of the county's fiscal year that begins on or after
1-23 the effective date of this Act.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.