Bill Text: TX HB3107 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to notification to the United States Social Security Administration of the release of certain prisoners from county jails.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-06 - Corrected committee report sent to Calendars [HB3107 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3107-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Menendez | H.B. No. 3107 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3107: | |||
| By: Pena | C.S.H.B. No. 3107 | ||
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| relating to notification to the United States Social Security | ||
| Administration of the release of certain prisoners from county | ||
| jails. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 351, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 351.045 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 351.045. NOTICE TO SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. | ||
| (a) The sheriff of a county shall notify the United States Social | ||
| Security Administration of the release or discharge of a prisoner | ||
| who, immediately before the prisoner's confinement in the county | ||
| jail, was receiving: | ||
| (1) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits under | ||
| 42 U.S.C. Section 1381 et seq.; or | ||
| (2) Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) | ||
| benefits under 42 U.S.C. Section 401 et seq. | ||
| (b) The sheriff shall provide the notice described by | ||
| Subsection (a) to the United States Social Security Administration | ||
| by mail and electronically immediately on the prisoner's release or | ||
| discharge from custody. The sheriff shall provide a copy of the | ||
| notice to the prisoner at the time of the prisoner's release or | ||
| discharge. | ||
| (c) The county or sheriff, or an employee of the county or | ||
| sheriff, is not liable in a civil action for damages resulting from | ||
| a failure to comply with this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the | ||
| release or discharge of a prisoner from a county jail that occurs on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of the date the | ||
| prisoner was initially confined in the county jail. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
