By: Ogden S.B. No. 1514
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to contracts for the use of inmate labor and the labor of
1-2 persons placed on community supervision for state highway system
1-3 improvement projects.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. The heading to Section 223.044, Transportation
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 223.044. INMATE [OR PROBATIONER] LABOR OR LABOR OF
1-8 PERSONS PLACED ON COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
1-9 SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 223.044,
1-10 Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-11 (a) The commission may authorize the department to contract
1-12 with [and] a criminal justice agency or a private correctional
1-13 facility [may contract] for the provision of inmate [or
1-14 probationer] labor or the labor of persons placed on community
1-15 supervision for a state highway system improvement project.
1-16 (b) A [The] contract with a criminal justice agency must be
1-17 made in conformity with Chapter 771, Government Code.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.