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.
 2-1                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 2-2           Amend S.B. No. 1514 (Senate Engrossment) by adding an
 2-3     appropriately numbered SECTION to read as follows and by
 2-4     renumbering existing SECTIONS accordingly:
 2-5           SECTION __.  Section 223.044, Transportation Code, is amended
 2-6     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 2-7           (d)  A contract with a private correctional facility under
 2-8     this section may not provide for the transfer of public funds to
 2-9     the private correctional facility for the use of inmate labor.
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