Bill Text: TX HB3530 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3530

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the confinement in a county jail of certain defendants who are incompetent to stand trial and to the compensation to the county for the costs of that confinement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Public Health [HB3530 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3530-Introduced.html

	88R13205 MCF-F

	By: Neave Criado	H.B. No. 3530



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the confinement in a county jail of certain defendants
	who are incompetent to stand trial and to the compensation to the
	county for the costs of that confinement.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 46B, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended by adding Article 46B.014 to read as follows:
	Art. 46B.014. TRANSFER TO COMMISSION; COMPENSATION TO
	COUNTIES. (a) The commission shall take custody of a defendant
	awaiting transfer to a mental health facility under an order issued
	under Article 46B.073, not later than the 21st day following the
	date the order is received by the commission.
	(b) If the commission does not take custody of a defendant
	within the period prescribed by Subsection (a), the commission
	shall compensate the county at a rate of $350 for each day that the
	defendant remains confined in the county jail following the
	expiration of that period.
	SECTION 2. Article 46B.014, Code of Criminal Procedure, as
	added by this Act, applies only to compensation to a county for the
	cost of a defendant's confinement that occurs on or after October 1,
	2023, regardless of whether the order of commitment is issued
	before, on, or after that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.