By: Shine (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) H.B. No. 3114
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021;
May 12, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 22, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 22, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to rules or procedures of the Commission on Jail Standards
regarding prisoner visitation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 511.009(a-1), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a-1) A county jail that as of September 1, 2015, has
incurred significant design, engineering, or construction costs to
provide prisoner visitation that does not comply with a rule or
procedure adopted under Subsection (a)(20), or does not have the
physical plant capability to provide the in-person prisoner
visitation required by a rule or procedure adopted under Subsection
(a)(20), is not required to comply with any commission rule or
procedure adopted under Subsection (a)(20). Any addition to or
renovation of a county jail to which this subsection applies is not
required to comply with any commission rule or procedure adopted
under Subsection (a)(20).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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