By: Williams S.B. No. 1698
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
Security; May 2, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
May 2, 2011, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1698 By: Williams
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reporting concerning inmates who are confined in county
jails and subject to federal immigration detainers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 511.0101, Government
Code, as amended by Chapters 977 (H.B. 3654) and 1215 (S.B. 1009),
Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted
and amended to read as follows:
(a) Each county shall submit to the commission on or before
the fifth day of each month a report containing the following
information:
(1) the number of prisoners confined in the county
jail on the first day of the month, classified on the basis of the
following categories:
(A) total prisoners;
(B) pretrial Class C misdemeanor offenders;
(C) pretrial Class A and B misdemeanor offenders;
(D) convicted misdemeanor offenders;
(E) felony offenders whose penalty has been
reduced to a misdemeanor;
(F) pretrial felony offenders;
(G) convicted felony offenders;
(H) prisoners detained on bench warrants;
(I) prisoners detained for parole violations;
(J) prisoners detained for federal officers;
(K) prisoners awaiting transfer to the
institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
following conviction of a felony or revocation of probation,
parole, or release on mandatory supervision and for whom paperwork
and processing required for transfer have been completed;
(L) prisoners detained after having been
transferred from another jail and for whom the commission has made a
payment under Subchapter F, Chapter 499, Government Code;
(M) prisoners for whom an immigration detainer
has been issued by United States Immigration and Customs
Enforcement [who are known to be pregnant]; and
(N) other prisoners;
(2) the total capacity of the county jail on the first
day of the month;
(3) the total number of prisoners who were confined in
the county jail during the preceding month, based on a count
conducted on each day of that month, who were known or had been
determined to be pregnant; [and]
(4) the total cost to the county during the preceding
month of housing prisoners described by Subdivision (1)(M),
calculated based on the average daily cost of housing a prisoner in
the county jail; and
(5) certification by the reporting official that the
information in the report is accurate.
SECTION 2. A county shall submit the first report required
by Section 511.0101, Government Code, as amended by this Act, not
later than October 5, 2011.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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