Bill Text: TX HB31 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-09 - Filed [HB31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB31-Introduced.html
By: Slaton | H.B. No. 31 |
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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. |