By Dukes H.B. No. 621
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the requirements for the location of a correctional or
1-3 rehabilitation facility.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 244.004, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A public hearing under Subsection (a) must be held in a
1-8 public meeting facility that is as close as possible to the
1-9 proposed location of the correctional or rehabilitation facility.
1-10 (d) An entity that is required to give notice under Section
1-11 244.002(a) may not enter a contract, including a lease, for the
1-12 construction or operation of the proposed correctional or
1-13 rehabilitation facility until the period during which local
1-14 consent may be denied under Subsection (a) has expired.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-23 Amend proposed H.B. No. 621 on page 1, line 9 by striking the
1-24 period "." and adding, "for treatment of persons on parole or
2-1 community supervision."
2-2 On page 1, line 13, after "rehabilitation facility" insert
2-3 before "until" the words, "for treatment of persons on parole or
2-4 community supervision."
2-5 Longoria