1-1     By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1514
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 12, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 8, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 8, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1514              By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to contracts for the use of inmate labor and the labor of
1-11     persons placed on community supervision for state highway system
1-12     improvement projects.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 223.044, Transportation
1-15     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 223.044.  INMATE [OR PROBATIONER] LABOR OR LABOR OF
1-17     PERSONS PLACED ON COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 223.044,
1-19     Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-20           (a)  The commission may authorize the department to contract
1-21     with [and] a criminal justice agency or a private correctional
1-22     facility [may contract] for the provision of inmate [or
1-23     probationer] labor or the labor of persons placed on community
1-24     supervision for a state highway system improvement project.
1-25           (b)  A [The] contract with a criminal justice agency must be
1-26     made in conformity with Chapter 771, Government Code.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.
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