Bill Text: TX HB2053 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to temporarily holding certain arrested persons in municipal jails.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2053 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2053-Comm_Sub.html

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83R21327 JRR-D
By: Phillips H.B. No. 2053
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2053:
By: Allen C.S.H.B. No. 2053

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to temporarily holding certain arrested persons in
municipal jails.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 351, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 351.0031 to read as follows:
Sec. 351.0031. HOLDING CERTAIN ARRESTED PERSONS IN
MUNICIPAL JAILS. (a) In this section, "municipal jail" means a
jail operated by a municipality or by a private vendor under
contract with a municipality.
(b) The commissioners court of a county with a population of
10,000 or less may contract with the governing body of a
municipality to hold an arrested person in the municipal jail for a
period not to exceed 72 hours after the person's arrest.
(c) The contract must require the county to pay to the
municipality a daily per capita rate equal to the cost of
maintaining an arrested person in the municipal jail or a daily rate
on which the parties agree.
(d) It is not a violation of this subchapter for a county
that contracts with a municipality in accordance with this section
to hold arrested persons in a municipal jail that does not comply
with the standards, rules, and procedures established under this
subchapter.
(e) Notwithstanding Section 351.015, the Commission on Jail
Standards may not inspect or regulate a municipal jail that holds an
arrested person for a county under a contract authorized by this
section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.