By Solomons H.B. No. 2123 76R7789 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring the state to reimburse counties for the costs 1-3 of confining certain state inmates. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 104.002, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) A county that confines in the county jail an inmate who 1-8 is the subject of a warrant issued under Section 508.251, 1-9 Government Code, or an inmate who is awaiting transfer to the Texas 1-10 Department of Criminal Justice after a determination by a parole 1-11 panel or a designee of the Board of Pardons and Paroles under 1-12 Section 508.283, Government Code, is entitled to receive 1-13 compensation from the state for each day the inmate is confined in 1-14 the county jail, other than the first two days. The county promptly 1-15 shall inform the department that an inmate described by this 1-16 subsection is confined in the jail. The department has a duty to 1-17 take custody of an inmate described by this subsection as soon as 1-18 the department receives notice under this subsection of the 1-19 confinement of the inmate in the county jail. The department may 1-20 contract with a county to provide for the custody and care of an 1-21 inmate described by this subsection. On the first day of each 1-22 quarter of a county's fiscal year, the county judge shall certify 1-23 to the comptroller of public accounts each inmate and, for each 1-24 inmate, the number of days during the preceding fiscal quarter for 2-1 which the county is entitled to compensation under this subsection. 2-2 The comptroller shall issue to the commissioners court of the 2-3 county a warrant in an amount computed for the preceding fiscal 2-4 quarter by multiplying $35 by the total number of days certified by 2-5 the county judge for all inmates or, if the comptroller determines 2-6 that the total number of days certified by the county judge is 2-7 inaccurate, by the total number of days determined by the 2-8 comptroller to be an accurate statement of days to which the county 2-9 is entitled to compensation. 2-10 SECTION 2. A county is entitled to compensation from the 2-11 state under Article 104.002(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, as 2-12 added by this Act, only for the confinement of inmates on or after 2-13 the effective date of this Act. 2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.