Bill Text: TX SB1888 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that a county report the number of certain persons with mental illness detained in that county's jail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1888 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1888-Introduced.html
  84R7408 CBH-F
 
  By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1888
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a requirement that a county report the number of certain
  persons with mental illness detained in that county's jail.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 511.0101(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  Each county shall submit to the commission on or before
  the fifth day of each month a report containing the following
  information:
               (1)  the number of prisoners confined in the county
  jail on the first day of the month, classified on the basis of the
  following categories:
                     (A)  total prisoners;
                     (B)  pretrial Class C misdemeanor offenders;
                     (C)  pretrial Class A and B misdemeanor offenders;
                     (D)  convicted misdemeanor offenders;
                     (E)  felony offenders whose penalty has been
  reduced to a misdemeanor;
                     (F)  pretrial felony offenders;
                     (G)  convicted felony offenders;
                     (H)  prisoners detained on bench warrants;
                     (I)  prisoners detained for parole violations;
                     (J)  prisoners detained for federal officers;
                     (K)  prisoners awaiting transfer to the
  institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  following conviction of a felony or revocation of probation,
  parole, or release on mandatory supervision and for whom paperwork
  and processing required for transfer have been completed;
                     (L)  prisoners detained after having been
  transferred from another jail and for whom the commission has made a
  payment under Subchapter F, Chapter 499[, Government Code];
                     (M)  prisoners for whom an immigration detainer
  has been issued by United States Immigration and Customs
  Enforcement; and
                     (N)  other prisoners;
               (2)  the total capacity of the county jail on the first
  day of the month;
               (3)  the total number of prisoners who were confined in
  the county jail during the preceding month, based on a count
  conducted on each day of that month, who were known or had been
  determined to be pregnant;
               (3-a)  the total number of prisoners who were confined
  in the county jail during the preceding month who were not charged
  with a criminal offense and were apprehended by a peace officer:
                     (A)  for emergency detention without a warrant
  under Section 573.001, Health and Safety Code;
                     (B)  for emergency detention with a warrant issued
  under Section 573.012, Health and Safety Code; or
                     (C)  for protective custody with an order issued
  under Section 574.022, Health and Safety Code;
               (4)  the total cost to the county during the preceding
  month of housing prisoners described by Subdivision (1)(M),
  calculated based on the average daily cost of housing a prisoner in
  the county jail; and
               (5)  certification by the reporting official that the
  information in the report is accurate.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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