H.B. No. 681




AN ACT

relating to the location of a jail or related facility operated by a 
private vendor or a county.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 361.067, Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 361.067.  LOCATION OF JAIL RESTRICTED IN POPULOUS 
MUNICIPALITY.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
subchapter, a private vendor or county may not establish a jail, 
detention center, work camp, or related facility in a municipality 
with a population of 1,500,000 or more if that facility is to be 
located within one-half mile of a public school, institution of 
higher education, or place of worship.
	(b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a booking facility that 
will be established within 500 feet of an existing county jail or 
detention facility.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 681 was passed by the House on April 
3, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. 
No. 681 on May 22, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 
present, not voting.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 681 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 20, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0.

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                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor