By: Haywood S.B. No. 1062 99S0676/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to requiring the state to reimburse counties for the costs 1-2 of confining certain state inmates. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 104.002, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) A county that confines in the county jail an inmate who 1-7 is the subject of a warrant issued under Section 508.251, 1-8 Government Code, or an inmate who is awaiting transfer to the Texas 1-9 Department of Criminal Justice after a determination by a parole 1-10 panel or a designee of the Board of Pardons and Paroles under 1-11 Section 508.283, Government Code, is entitled to receive 1-12 compensation from the state for each day the inmate is confined in 1-13 the county jail, other than the first two days. The county shall 1-14 promptly inform the department that an inmate described by this 1-15 subsection is confined in the jail. The department has a duty to 1-16 take custody of an inmate described by this subsection as soon as 1-17 the department receives notice under this subsection of the 1-18 confinement of the inmate in the county jail. The department may 1-19 contract with a county to provide for the custody and care of an 1-20 inmate described by this subsection. On the first day of each 1-21 quarter of a county's fiscal year, the county judge shall certify 1-22 to the comptroller each inmate and, for each inmate, the number of 1-23 days during the preceding fiscal quarter for which the county is 1-24 entitled to compensation under this subsection. The comptroller 2-1 shall issue to the commissioners court of the county a warrant in 2-2 an amount computed for the preceding fiscal quarter by multiplying 2-3 $35 by the total number of days certified by the county judge for 2-4 all inmates or, if the comptroller determines that the total number 2-5 of days certified by the county judge is inaccurate, by the total 2-6 number of days determined by the comptroller to be an accurate 2-7 statement of days for which the county is entitled to compensation. 2-8 SECTION 2. A county is entitled to compensation from the 2-9 state under Subsection (e), Article 104.002, Code of Criminal 2-10 Procedure, as added by this Act, only for the confinement of 2-11 inmates on or after the effective date of this Act. 2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.