Bill Text: TX HB2467 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to training requirements applicable to a jailer at a private correctional facility.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB2467 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2467-Comm_Sub.html

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86R27815 MAW-D
By: Zedler, Coleman H.B. No. 2467
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2467:
By: Stickland C.S.H.B. No. 2467

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to training requirements applicable to a jailer at a
private correctional facility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 1701.3101 to read as follows:
Sec. 1701.3101. JAILER AT PRIVATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
(a) This section applies only to a person serving as a jailer in a
correctional facility operated by a private vendor.
(b) The commission by rule shall require a jailer to whom
this section applies to complete the preparatory training program
described by Section 1701.310 not later than the 180th day after the
date the jailer is hired. A jailer who does not complete the
program as required by this subsection shall be removed from the
position and may not serve as a jailer in any facility until
completing the program.
(c) A jailer may not serve in a supervisory position unless
the person has satisfactorily completed the preparatory training
program.
(d) A jailer who has not satisfactorily completed the
preparatory training program must be under the direct supervision
of a jailer who has satisfactorily completed the preparatory
training program.
(e) At any time, the number of jailers employed at a
facility operated by a private vendor who have not satisfactorily
completed the training program may not exceed 10 percent of the
total number of jailers employed at that facility.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.