Bill Text: TX HB3606 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of vocational training to inmates confined in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice transfer facility.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3606 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3606-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3606 | ||
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| relating to the provision of vocational training to inmates | ||
| confined in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice transfer | ||
| facility. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 499, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 499.156 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 499.156. VOCATIONAL TRAINING. The department shall | ||
| adopt a policy under which a representative of a public or private | ||
| entity, including a public or private institution of higher | ||
| education, may provide vocational training on a voluntary basis to | ||
| inmates confined in a transfer facility authorized under this | ||
| subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall adopt | ||
| the policy required by Section 499.156, Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3606 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3606 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
