Tex. Gov't Code § 495.024 · Subchapter B. MISCELLANEOUS CONTRACTS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES
RELEASE OF OUT-OF-STATE INMATES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A county or a municipality or a private vendor operating a correctional facility under a contract with a county under Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, or a municipality under Subchapter E, Chapter 361, Local Government Code, that enters into a contract with any entity to house in this state inmates convicted of offenses committed against the laws of another state of the United States must require as a condition of the contract that each inmate to be released from custody must be released in the sending state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 175, Sec. 1, eff. May 21, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.495.htm
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Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code ch. 351, subch. FCOUNTY CONTRACT WITH PRIVATE ENTITY FOR JAIL FACILITIESPrinted as Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code ch. 361, subch. EMUNICIPAL CONTRACT WITH COUNTY OR PRIVATE ENTITY FOR JAIL FACILITIESPrinted as Subchapter E, Chapter 361, Local Government Code
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