Bill Text: TX HB2201 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to housing certain inmates in state jail felony facilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2201 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2201-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2201 | ||
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| relating to housing certain inmates in state jail felony | ||
| facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 507.006(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, | ||
| the state jail division, with the approval of the board, may | ||
| designate one or more state jail felony facilities [ |
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| inmates who are eligible for confinement in a substance abuse | ||
| felony punishment facility under Section 493.009 or to house | ||
| inmates who are sentenced to imprisonment in the institutional | ||
| division, but only if the designation does not deny placement in a | ||
| state jail felony facility of defendants required to serve terms of | ||
| confinement in a facility following conviction of state jail | ||
| felonies. The division may not house in a state jail felony | ||
| facility an inmate who: | ||
| (1) has a history of or has shown a pattern of violent | ||
| or assaultive behavior in county jail or a facility operated by the | ||
| department; or | ||
| (2) will increase the likelihood of harm to the public | ||
| if housed in the facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2201 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 123, Nays 19, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2201 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
