85R7205 JG-D
 
  By: Frank H.B. No. 1550
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to
  reimburse counties for certain costs for confining a person pending
  a transfer to the department.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 499, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 499.1215 to read as follows:
         Sec. 499.1215.  REIMBURSEMENT TO COUNTIES. (a)  A county is
  entitled to reimbursement from the department for the cost of
  confining an inmate described by Section 499.121(c) in a county
  jail at a rate of $45 for each day the inmate remains confined
  following the date on which all processing required for transfer
  has been completed.
         (b)  A county judge may request reimbursement by submitting
  to the comptroller a statement of the amount for which the county is
  entitled to reimbursement under Subsection (a).  On receipt of a
  statement from a county under this subsection, the comptroller
  shall reimburse the county in the amount requested from funds
  appropriated to the department.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter I, Chapter 508, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 508.285 to read as follows:
         Sec. 508.285.  REIMBURSEMENT TO COUNTIES. (a)  A county is
  entitled to reimbursement from the department for the cost of
  confining a person described by Section 508.281(a) in a county jail
  at a rate of $45 for each day the person remains confined following
  the date on which the county's processing related to the transfer of
  the person to the department has been completed if the person is
  confined after an ineligible release or only on a charge that the
  person has committed an administrative violation of release.
         (b)  A county judge may request reimbursement by submitting
  to the comptroller a statement of the amount for which the county is
  entitled to reimbursement under Subsection (a).  On receipt of a
  statement from a county under this subsection, the comptroller
  shall reimburse the county in the amount requested from funds
  appropriated to the department.
         SECTION 3.  Section 499.1215, Government Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only to the reimbursement of a county for the cost
  of confinement of an inmate described by Section 499.1215(a) that
  occurs on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of
  whether all processing required for transfer of the inmate to the
  Texas Department of Criminal Justice is completed before, on, or
  after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  Section 508.285, Government Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only to a person who is arrested on or after the
  effective date of this Act.  A person arrested before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
  person was arrested, and the former law is continued in effect for
  that purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.