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TX Govt Code § 497.091 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.091. Contracts for Inmate Labor

Sec. 497.091.  CONTRACTS FOR INMATE LABOR.  (a)  In this section:(1)  "Agency" has the meaning assigned that term by Section 771.002.(2)  "Local government" has the meaning assigned that term by Section 791.003.(b)  The department shall seek contracts with agencies and local governments to provide inmate labor to those agencies and governments, with the department giving priority to seeking contracts for the use of inmate labor for service projects that benefit the public.(c)  The department may not enter into a contract with an agency under this section unless the contract complies with Chapter 771 and may not enter into a contract with a local government under this section unless the contract complies with Chapter 791. A contract entered into under this section may provide that the department be reimbursed for expenses incurred by the division in providing inmate labor to the agency or local government.(d)  The department shall make reasonable efforts to contract with nonprofit organizations that provide services to the general public and enhance social welfare and the general well-being of the community to provide inmate labor to those organizations.  In entering contracts under this subsection, the department should give preference to nonprofit organizations that will use the inmate labor in a manner that increases the inmates' vocational skills.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.091 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.041, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;   Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1409, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 302, Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 1999;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 1.33, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.|
TX Govt Code § 497.092 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.092. Highway Improvement

Sec. 497.092.  HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT.  (a)  The board and the Texas Transportation Commission may enter into and perform an agreement or contract for the use of inmate labor for a state highway improvement project.(b)  An agreement or contract entered into under this section and payments made under the agreement or contract must conform with Chapter 771.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.092 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 22(39), eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.042, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Govt Code § 497.093 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.093. Inmate Labor at Sam Houston State University

Sec. 497.093.  INMATE LABOR AT SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY.  The institutional division may provide trusties to work at Sam Houston State University.  The institutional division shall maintain control over the trusties at all times.  Time spent by a trusty working at the university is considered time spent by the inmate in custody.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.093 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 497.094 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.094. Job Training Programs

Sec. 497.094.  JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS.  (a)  The department shall implement a job training program for each job performed by an inmate confined in a facility operated by or under contract with the department or a defendant or releasee housed in a facility operated by or under contract with the department and monitor the success of those programs.  The department shall also establish a permanent record for each inmate, defendant, or releasee.  The record must describe the types of job training provided to the inmate, defendant, or releasee by the department.  On release from imprisonment or supervision, the department shall provide the inmate, defendant, or releasee with a copy of the record.  The department shall collect information relating to the employment histories of inmates released from the institutional division on parole and mandatory supervision.(b)  The department and the Texas Workforce Investment Council by rule shall adopt a memorandum of understanding that establishes the respective responsibility of those entities to provide through local workforce development boards job training and employment assistance to persons formerly sentenced to the institutional division or the state jail division and information on services available to employers or potential employers of those persons.  The department shall coordinate the development of the memorandum of understanding.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.094 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.043, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 611, Sec. 4, eff. Aug. 28, 1995;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 1.34, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 818, Sec. 6.07, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.|
TX Govt Code § 497.095 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.095. Inmate's Work Record

Sec. 497.095.  INMATE'S WORK RECORD.  The department shall establish a permanent record for each inmate confined, and for each defendant or releasee housed, in a facility operated by or under contract with the department who participates in a department work program. The record must describe the type or types of work performed by the inmate, defendant, or releasee during the person's confinement or supervision and must contain evaluations of the performance of and proficiency at tasks assigned and a record of the attendance at work by the inmate, defendant, or releasee.  On release from imprisonment or supervision, the department shall provide the inmate, defendant, or releasee with a copy of a record made by the department under this section.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.095 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 1.35, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.|
TX Govt Code § 497.096 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.096. Liability Protections

Sec. 497.096.  LIABILITY PROTECTIONS.  An employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, sheriff, employee of a sheriff's department, county commissioner, county employee, county judge, employee of a community corrections and supervision department, restitution center, or officer or employee of a political subdivision other than a county is not liable for damages arising from an act or failure to act in connection with community service performed by an inmate imprisoned in a facility operated by the department or in connection with an inmate or offender programmatic or nonprogrammatic activity, including work, community service, educational, and treatment activities, if the act or failure to act was not intentional, wilfully or wantonly negligent, or performed with conscious indifference or reckless disregard for the safety of others.|Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 201, Sec. 5, eff. Aug. 30, 1993.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.044, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Govt Code § 497.097 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.097. Use of State Jail Felons

Sec. 497.097.  USE OF STATE JAIL FELONS.  The department may use the labor of defendants confined in a state jail felony facility in any work or community service program or project performed by the institutional division.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.045, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Govt Code § 497.099 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter E. General Provisions Related to Inmate Labor|Section 497.099. Participation in Work Program Required

Sec. 497.099.  PARTICIPATION IN WORK PROGRAM REQUIRED.  (a)  The department shall require each inmate and each defendant or releasee housed in a facility operated by or under contract with the department to work in an agricultural, industrial, or other work program to the extent that the inmate, defendant, or releasee is physically and mentally capable of working.  The department may waive the work requirement for an inmate, defendant, or releasee as necessary to maintain security or to permit the inmate, defendant, or releasee to participate in rehabilitative programming.(b)  The board may develop by rule and the department may administer an incentive pay scale program for inmates required to work in agricultural, industrial, or other work programs.  In developing the program, the board shall set pay levels not to unjustly reward inmates, but rather to instruct inmates on the virtues of diligent participation in the workplace.  The department shall deposit an amount earned by an inmate under this subsection into the inmate's trust fund and may deduct not more than 80 percent of the amount deposited under this subsection for payment of restitution and dependent care owed by the inmate.  This subsection does not apply to the compensation of an inmate participating in a Texas Correctional Industries program under Subchapter A or an inmate participating in a private sector prison industries program under Subchapter C.|Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 1.36, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.|
TX Govt Code § 497.111 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter F. Agriculture|Section 497.111. Advisory Committee on Agriculture

Sec. 497.111.  ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.  (a)  The Advisory Committee on Agriculture to the institutional division is created.  (b)  The advisory committee consists of five members.  One member must be a member of the board, and if possible that member should have a knowledge of agriculture.  One member must be a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University with expertise in agriculture.  The other members must be citizens of the state with knowledge of agriculture.  The board shall appoint the board member, the faculty member from Texas A&M University, and two of the citizen members.  The commissioner of agriculture shall appoint the remaining citizen member.(c)  Members of the advisory committee serve at the will of the board.(d)  The member of the advisory committee who is the board member serves as chairman of the advisory committee.(e)  Members of the advisory committee are not entitled to compensation but are entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing their official duties as advisory committee members.(f)  Necessary costs for the operation of the committee shall be paid from funds appropriated to the board.(g)  The advisory committee shall hold regular quarterly meetings on dates fixed by the committee and special meetings as the committee determines necessary.(h)  The advisory committee shall keep a public record of its decisions at the general office of the institutional division.(i)  The advisory committee shall present to the board periodic evaluations of agricultural programs, suggestions for new areas of agricultural operations, and reviews related to the need for mechanization and the use of inmate labor in agricultural operations.  The committee shall report to the board on its activities at least twice each year.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.111 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 497.112 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter F. Agriculture|Section 497.112. Agricultural Efficiency and Economy

Sec. 497.112.  AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY.  (a)  The institutional division shall review annually the agricultural operations of the division.  The review must include:(1)  a cost-effectiveness analysis of all agricultural programs;(2)  a determination as to whether the institutional division could more economically purchase certain agricultural products rather than produce those products;  and(3)  a determination as to whether certain agricultural operations performed by inmates could be mechanized, taking into account whether mechanization would adversely affect security or inmate discipline.(b)  The institutional division shall use the information provided by the annual review in developing and improving agricultural operations.(c)  The institutional division shall provide the board with a copy of the annual review required by this section.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 496.112 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 497.113 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 497 - Industry and Agriculture; Labor of Inmates|Subchapter F. Agriculture|Section 497.113. Surplus Agricultural Property and Products

Sec. 497.113.  SURPLUS AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY AND PRODUCTS.  (a)  The board may authorize the sale or disposal of surplus agricultural products and personal property owned by the department, other than products or property produced for sale by the department.(b)  Products and property described by Subsection (a) shall be sold under rules adopted by the board and at prices and terms set pursuant to those rules.(c)  The department may use surplus agricultural capacity to provide agricultural products to a nonprofit organization at no profit to the department.(d)  The department is encouraged to enter into agreements with nonprofit food banks.  An agreement under this subsection may provide that a food bank will supply seed and fertilizer to the department and that the department will in turn provide to the food bank agricultural products grown from the seed and with the assistance of the fertilizer.  For the purpose of this subsection, "nonprofit food bank" means a nonprofit organization that solicits, warehouses, and redistributes edible food to agencies that feed needy families and individuals.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1409, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 303, Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 1999.|
TX Govt Code § 499.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 499 - Population Management; Special Programs|Subchapter A. Pre-Parole Transfer|Section 499.001. Definitions

Sec. 499.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:(1)  "Community residential facility" means a facility under contract with the department under Section 508.119 or another facility or residence approved by the department.(2)  "Eligible inmate" means an inmate in the actual physical custody of the institutional division for whom a presumptive parole date has been established by a parole panel.(3)  "Pre-parolee" means an eligible inmate of whom the pardons and paroles division has assumed custody.(4)  "Presumptive parole date" means a date specified by a parole panel under Section 508.151 on which an inmate's parole release is to become effective.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 498.001 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.051, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.12, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|
TX Govt Code § 499.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 499 - Population Management; Special Programs|Subchapter A. Pre-Parole Transfer|Section 499.002. Transfer to Community Residential Facility

Sec. 499.002.  TRANSFER TO COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL FACILITY.  (a)  The pardons and paroles division may assume custody of an eligible inmate not more than one year before the inmate's presumptive parole date or mandatory supervision release date.  The eligible inmate becomes a pre-parolee on the date the pardons and paroles division assumes custody, and the pardons and paroles division immediately shall transfer the pre-parolee to a community residential facility.  Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the pre-parolee may serve the remainder of the pre-parolee's sentence before release on parole in the facility designated by the pardons and paroles division.(b)  At the time of the transfer of the pre-parolee, the pardons and paroles division shall designate a community residential facility as the pre-parolee's assigned unit of confinement.(c)  If a pre-parolee is transferred from pre-parole status to parole status the pre-parolee shall receive any balance of the money to which the pre-parolee is entitled under Section 501.015.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 498.002 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.052, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Govt Code § 499.0021 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 499 - Population Management; Special Programs|Subchapter A. Pre-Parole Transfer|Section 499.0021. Transfer of Revoked Defendants

Sec. 499.0021.  TRANSFER OF REVOKED DEFENDANTS.  (a)  An inmate is eligible for transfer under this section if the inmate is confined in the institutional division or a county jail following revocation of community supervision on grounds other than the commission of a subsequent felony offense.(b)  The pardons and paroles division may assume custody of an inmate who is eligible for transfer under this section not earlier than one year before the inmate's presumptive parole date.  The inmate becomes a pre-parolee on the date the pardons and paroles division assumes custody, and the pardons and paroles division immediately shall transfer the pre-parolee to a facility under contract with the department, which may be a community residential facility, a community corrections facility listed in Section 509.001, or a county correctional facility.  A pre-parolee transferred under this section is considered to be in the actual physical custody of the pardons and paroles division.(c)  A pre-parolee transferred by the pardons and paroles division to a facility under this section is subject to the provisions of Sections 499.002(c), 499.004, and 499.005 in the same manner as if the person were a pre-parolee who had been transferred to a community residential facility under Section 499.002.|Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 10, Sec. 12.01, eff. Oct. 1, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 988, Sec. 4.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 7.05, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.053, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Govt Code § 499.004 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 499 - Population Management; Special Programs|Subchapter A. Pre-Parole Transfer|Section 499.004. Rules; Supervision of Pre-Parolees

Sec. 499.004.  RULES;  SUPERVISION OF PRE-PAROLEES.  (a)  The department shall establish policies for the conduct of pre-parolees transferred under this subchapter.(b)  On transfer, the pre-parolee is subject to supervision by the pardons and paroles division and shall obey the orders of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and the pardons and paroles division.(c)  A facility director or designee of a facility director shall immediately report to the pardons and paroles division in writing if the director or designee believes that a pre-parolee has violated the terms of the pre-parolee's transfer agreement or the rules of the facility.  The pardons and paroles division may require an agent of the pardons and paroles division or the community residential facility to conduct a hearing.(d)  If the pardons and paroles division has an administrative need to deliver the pre-parolee to the custody of the institutional division or if after a disciplinary hearing the pardons and paroles division concurs that a violation has occurred, the pardons and paroles division may deliver the pre-parolee to the actual custody of the institutional division and the institutional division may assign the pre-parolee to a regular unit of the institutional division.  If the pardons and paroles division recommends rescission or revision of the pre-parolee's presumptive parole date, a parole panel shall rescind or revise the date unless it determines the action is inappropriate.(e)  Before a pre-parolee is transferred to a community residential facility under this section and before the pre-parolee is released on parole, the department may award good conduct time to the pre-parolee in the same amounts and in the same manner as the department awards good conduct time to inmates in the institutional division under Chapter 498.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 498.003 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.055, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.|
TX Govt Code § 499.005 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 499 - Population Management; Special Programs|Subchapter A. Pre-Parole Transfer|Section 499.005. Transfer to Parole Status

Sec. 499.005.  TRANSFER TO PAROLE STATUS.  (a)  If a pre-parolee transferred under this subchapter satisfactorily serves a term in a community residential facility until the pre-parolee's presumptive parole date, the Board of Pardons and Paroles may transfer the pre-parolee from pre-parole status to parole status and the Board of Pardons and Paroles may issue the pre-parolee an appropriate certificate of release to conditional freedom under Chapter 508.(b)  A pre-parolee transferred from pre-parole status to parole status is subject to provisions concerning inmates released on parole provided under Chapter 508.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 498.004 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.13, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.|