Bill Text: TX HB2733 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2733 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Public Health [HB2733 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2733-Introduced.html

	88R11544 MCF-D

	By: Hayes	H.B. No. 2733



	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 under an order issued under Article 46B.073 to a
	facility operated by or under contract with the commission, not
	later than the 45th day following the date the order is issued.
	(b) If the commission does not take custody of a defendant
	within the period prescribed by Subsection (a), the commission
	shall compensate the county for the cost of confinement for each day
	that the defendant remains confined in the county jail following
	the expiration of that period. The compensation must be equal to
	the amount that would have been incurred by the commission to
	confine the defendant for 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 January 1,
	2024, regardless of whether the order of commitment is issued
	before, on, or after that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.