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.