Bill Text: TX HB2811 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to programs provided by volunteer and faith-based organizations to inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB2811 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2811-Engrossed.html
| By: Toth, et al. | H.B. No. 2811 | |
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| relating to programs provided by volunteer and faith-based | ||
| organizations to inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal | ||
| Justice. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 501.009, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.009. VOLUNTEER AND FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS; | ||
| REPORT. (a) The department shall adopt a policy that requires each | ||
| warden to identify [ |
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| organizations that [ |
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| inmates housed in facilities operated by the department. The | ||
| policy must require each warden to actively encourage volunteer and | ||
| faith-based organizations to provide the following programs for | ||
| inmates in the warden's facility: | ||
| (1) literacy and education programs; | ||
| (2) life skills programs; | ||
| (3) job skills programs; | ||
| (4) parent-training programs; | ||
| (5) drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs; | ||
| (6) support group programs; | ||
| (7) arts and crafts programs; and | ||
| (8) other programs determined by the department to aid | ||
| inmates in the transition between confinement and society and to | ||
| reduce incidence of recidivism among inmates. | ||
| (b) The policy must require that each warden submit a report | ||
| to the board not later than December 31 of each year that includes, | ||
| for the preceding fiscal year, a summary of: | ||
| (1) the programs provided to inmates under this | ||
| section; and | ||
| (2) the actions taken by the warden to identify | ||
| volunteer and faith-based organizations willing to provide | ||
| programs to inmates and to encourage those organizations to provide | ||
| programs in the warden's facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2013, the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice shall adopt the policy, including a | ||
| schedule for implementing the policy, required by Section 501.009, | ||
| Government Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
