Bill Text: TX HB2580 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to access to telephone services for persons confined in county jails.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2580 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2580-Comm_Sub.html
86R22920 JRR-F | |||
By: Wu | H.B. No. 2580 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2580: | |||
By: Stickland | C.S.H.B. No. 2580 |
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relating to access to telephone services for persons confined in | ||
county 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 351.0135 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 351.0135. ACCESS TO TELEPHONE SERVICES FOR PERSONS | ||
CONFINED IN COUNTY JAIL. The sheriff of each county shall adopt a | ||
policy governing the use of telephone services by persons confined | ||
in the county jail. The policy: | ||
(1) must allow each person confined in the county jail | ||
pending trial to: | ||
(A) make domestic telephone calls to the person's | ||
attorney for a total duration of 20 minutes per month at no cost to | ||
the person or the person's attorney; and | ||
(B) make one 10-minute domestic telephone call | ||
per week to a person other than the person's attorney at no cost to | ||
the person or the person receiving the call; and | ||
(2) must allow each person confined in the county jail | ||
other than a person described by Subdivision (1) to make one | ||
10-minute domestic telephone call per month at no cost to the person | ||
or the person receiving the call. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the sheriff of | ||
each county shall adopt the policy required by Section 351.0135, | ||
Local Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |