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.