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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the career ladder for certain prison industry workers. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 493.007, Government Code, is amended by |
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amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as |
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follows: |
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(a) The executive director shall develop an intraagency |
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career ladder program. The career ladder program developed for |
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correctional officers under this subsection shall also include |
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prison industry workers. The program shall require intraagency |
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postings of all nonentry level positions concurrently with any |
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public postings. |
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(e) In this section, "prison industry worker" means a |
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department employee, other than a correctional officer, who is |
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assigned to work on a program or project established under Chapter |
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497 and whose job on a regular basis requires routine contact with |
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state jail defendants or inmates confined in facilities operated by |
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or under contract with the department. The term includes a farm |
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manager, livestock supervisor, maintenance foreman, shop foreman, |
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medical assistant, food service supervisor, steward, education |
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consultant, commodity specialist, truck driver, or correctional |
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counselor. |
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SECTION 2. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice must |
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use the career ladder program developed under Section 493.007(a), |
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Government Code, as amended by this Act, for any person who becomes |
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employed by the department as a prison industry worker or who |
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becomes eligible for promotion by the department as a prison |
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industry worker on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |