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Amend HB 1660 (engrossed version), on page 2, between lines
12 and 13, by inserting a new subsection (b), Section 351.016, Local
Government Code, to read as follows and redesignating existing
Subsection (b) of that Subsection (c):
(b) The Commission on Jail Standards shall include in the
report submitted under Subsection (a) information stating by
county:
(1) the number of suicides committed by inmates
confined in the county jail;
(2) the number of assaults committed against inmates
confined in the county jail;
(3) the number of assaults committed by inmates
confined in the county jail against the sheriff or an officer or
employee of the county jail;
(4) the number of lawsuits filed against the county
as a result of suicides and assaults;
(5) the costs incurred by the county in defending
those lawsuits; and
(6) the judgments awarded against the county in those
lawsuits.