81R8364 PEP-D
By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1690
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain correctional facilities that house only federal
prisoners.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 511.0094, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 511.0094. EXCLUSION OF JAILS OR CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES HOUSING ONLY FEDERAL PRISONERS. The provisions of this
chapter do not apply to a correctional facility, other than a
county-owned facility, contracting to house only federal prisoners
and operating pursuant to a contract between a unit of the federal
government and a county, a municipality, or a private vendor. If a
county, municipality, or private vendor contracts to house or
begins to house state, county, or municipal prisoners or prisoners
of another state of the United States, it shall report to the
commission before placing such inmates in a correctional facility
housing only federal prisoners.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.