By: Ogden S.B. No. 1514
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the use of inmate and probationer labor for state
1-2 highway system improvement projects.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 223.004, Transportation Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 223.044. Inmate or Probationer Labor for Improvement
1-7 Projects. (a) The commission may authorize the department to
1-8 contract with [and] a criminal justice agency or a private
1-9 correctional facility [may contract] for the provision of inmate or
1-10 probationer labor for a state highway system improvement project.
1-11 (b) A [The] contract with a criminal justice agency must be
1-12 made in conformity with Chapter 771, Government Code.
1-13 (c) In this section, "criminal justice agency" includes:
1-14 (1) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
1-15 (2) a community supervision and corrections department
1-16 established under Chapter 76, Government Code; and
1-17 (3) a sheriff's department operating:
1-18 (A) a county farm or workhouse established under
1-19 Article 43.10, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
1-20 (B) a county correctional center established
1-21 under Section 351.181, Local Government Code.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.