Bill Text: TX HB271 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of and a grant program for temporary confinement facilities during local disasters relating to illegal immigration or border security.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-14 - Filed [HB271 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB271-Introduced.html
| 87S10172 JRR-D | ||
| By: Slaton | H.B. No. 271 | |
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| relating to the establishment of and a grant program for temporary | ||
| confinement facilities during local disasters relating to illegal | ||
| immigration or border security. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 772, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 772.0079 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 772.0079. GRANT PROGRAM FOR TEMPORARY CONFINEMENT | ||
| FACILITIES DURING CERTAIN LOCAL DISASTERS. (a) In this section, | ||
| "criminal justice division" means the criminal justice division | ||
| established under Section 772.006. | ||
| (b) The criminal justice division shall establish and | ||
| administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to | ||
| counties to offset costs related to the establishment and operation | ||
| of temporary confinement facilities authorized under Section | ||
| 351.0037, Local Government Code. | ||
| (c) The criminal justice division shall establish: | ||
| (1) eligibility criteria for grant applicants; | ||
| (2) grant application procedures; | ||
| (3) criteria for evaluating grant applications and | ||
| awarding grants; | ||
| (4) guidelines related to grant amounts; and | ||
| (5) procedures for monitoring the use of a grant | ||
| awarded under this section and ensuring compliance with any | ||
| conditions of the grant. | ||
| (d) The criminal justice division may use any revenue | ||
| available for purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 351, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 351.0037 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 351.0037. TEMPORARY CONFINEMENT FACILITIES DURING | ||
| CERTAIN LOCAL DISASTERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a | ||
| county for which a local disaster has been declared under Section | ||
| 418.108, Government Code, relating to illegal immigration or border | ||
| security may establish and operate a temporary facility for the | ||
| confinement of persons not lawfully present in the United States | ||
| who are accused of committing an offense in lieu of confining those | ||
| persons in the county jail. | ||
| (b) The Commission on Jail Standards shall waive, to the | ||
| extent the commission determines compliance is not practicable or | ||
| reasonable with respect to a facility described by Subsection (a), | ||
| any standards applicable to the confinement of prisoners in a | ||
| facility other than a county jail under Section 351.0035 or other | ||
| law. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
