Bill Text: TX HB480 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the placement of an inmate in administrative segregation based on membership in a security threat group.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Corrections [HB480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB480-Introduced.html
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| By: Meza | H.B. No. 480 | |
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| relating to the placement of an inmate in administrative | ||
| segregation based on membership in a security threat group. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 501, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 501.115 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.115. LIMITATION ON USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| SEGREGATION BASED ON MEMBERSHIP IN SECURITY THREAT GROUP. (a) The | ||
| department may not place an inmate in administrative segregation | ||
| based solely on membership in a security threat group unless the | ||
| director or director's designee determines that: | ||
| (1) the placement is necessary based on a reasonable | ||
| belief that the inmate constitutes an immediate threat to the | ||
| safety of the inmate or another person or to the security of the | ||
| facility in which the inmate is confined; and | ||
| (2) a less restrictive confinement alternative is | ||
| inadequate to address the threat described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| (b) The department shall review, on a weekly basis, the | ||
| placement of an inmate described by Subsection (a) in | ||
| administrative segregation and consider whether a less restrictive | ||
| confinement option is appropriate. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
