80R935 HLT-D
 
  By: Madden H.B. No. 199
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a residential infant care program for mothers confined
in Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 501, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 501.022 to read as follows:
       Sec. 501.022.  INFANT CARE AND PARENTING. The department
shall implement a residential infant care and parenting program for
mothers who are confined by the department. To the extent
practicable, the department shall model the program after the
Federal Bureau of Prisons' Mothers and Infants Together program
operated under contract in Fort Worth.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.