Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 493 - Texas Department Of Criminal Justice: Organization

• Texas Section 493.001 - Department Mission
  The mission of the department is to provide public safety, promote positive change in offender behavior, reintegrate offenders into society, and assist victims of crime....
• Texas Section 493.002 - Divisions
  (a) The following divisions are within the department: (1) the community justice assistance division; (2) the institutional division; (3) the pardons and paroles division; (4)...
• Texas Section 493.0021 - Organizational Flexibility
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 493.002, 493.003, 493.004, 493.005, 493.0051, 493.0052, as added by Chapter 1360, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, and 493.0052, as...
• Texas Section 493.003 - Community Justice Assistance Division
  (a) The community justice assistance division shall: (1) establish minimum standards for programs, facilities, and services provided by community supervision and corrections departments; and (2)...
• Texas Section 493.004 - Institutional Division
  The institutional division shall operate and manage the state prison system. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.
• Texas Section 493.005 - Pardons And Paroles Division
  The pardons and paroles division shall supervise and reintegrate felons into society after release from confinement. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec....
• Texas Section 493.0051 - State Jail Division
  The state jail division shall operate and manage state jails to confine defendants described by Section 507.002. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 988,...
• Texas Section 493.0052 - Internal Audit Division
  (a) The board shall hire a director for the internal audit division. The employment of the director may be terminated only with the approval of...
• Texas Section 493.0053 - Programs And Services Division
  (a) The programs and services division shall administer those rehabilitation and reintegration programs and services designated by the board under Subsection (b). (b) The board...
• Texas Section 493.006 - Executive Director
  (a) The board shall employ an executive director who possesses the following minimum qualifications: (1) five years experience in the field of corrections in an...
• Texas Section 493.007 - Personnel
  (a) The executive director shall develop an intraagency career ladder program. The program shall require intraagency postings of all nonentry level positions concurrently with any...
• Texas Section 493.0071 - Employee Exit Interviews
  (a) The department shall adopt a policy that provides for an exit interview of each institutional division employee who terminates employment with the department. Employee...
• Texas Section 493.008 - Audit By State Auditor
  The financial transactions of the department are subject to audit by the state auditor in accordance with Chapter 321, and the state auditor shall include...
• Texas Section 493.0081 - Legislative Appropriations Request
  The department shall include in each legislative appropriations request submitted to the Legislative Budget Board the information contained in the most recent report prepared by...
• Texas Section 493.0082 - Disposition Of Certain Financial Assets
  (a) All money and other financial assets collected or received by the department shall be deposited: (1) in the general revenue fund of the state...
• Texas Section 493.0083 - Program Evaluation Capability
  The department shall maintain a program evaluation capability separate from the programs and services division to determine the effectiveness of rehabilitation and reintegration programs and...
• Texas Section 493.009 - Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facilities
  Sec. 493.009. SUBSTANCE ABUSE FELONY PUNISHMENT FACILITIES. Text of subsection effective until January 01, 2017 (a) The department shall establish a program to confine and...
• Texas Section 493.010 - Contracts For Miscellaneous Housing
  The board, for the temporary or permanent housing of inmates, may enter into leases or contract with: (1) public or private jails; or (2) operators...
• Texas Section 493.011 - Consultant Contracts For Prison Construction
  The board may not contract for construction-related consulting services to the board with an individual or firm if that individual or firm is also under...
• Texas Section 493.012 - Historically Underutilized Businesses
  (a) The board and the department each shall make a good faith effort to assist historically underutilized businesses to receive at least 30 percent of...
• Texas Section 493.013 - Federal Funds Committee
  (a) The board shall ensure that the federal funds committee of the department includes representatives of all divisions of the department that may be able...
• Texas Section 493.014 - Applicability Of Certain Grievance Procedures
  A grievance procedure of the department or a division of the department, including the procedure established under Section 501.008, applies to a grievance of an...
• Texas Section 493.0145 - Identification Of Inmates Subject To Arrest Warrant
  Before an inmate is discharged or is released on parole or mandatory supervision from the department, the department shall conduct a criminal history record check...
• Texas Section 493.015 - Identification Of Deportable Aliens
  (a) In this section, "illegal criminal alien" means an alien who has been convicted of a felony and is in the custody of the state...
• Texas Section 493.0151 - Dynamic Risk Assessment Of Sex Offenders
  (a) For purposes of this section, "sexual offense" means a criminal offense the conviction of which requires a person to register as a sex offender...
• Texas Section 493.0155 - Proper Identification Of Inmates Using Alias
  On receipt of information from the Department of Public Safety under Article 60.19, Code of Criminal Procedure, that a person's identifying information may have been...
• Texas Section 493.016 - Information Of Public Interest; Complaints
  (a) The department shall prepare information of public interest describing the functions of the department and the procedures by which complaints are filed with and...
• Texas Section 493.017 - Reports On Sex Offender Treatment
  Sec. 493.017. REPORTS ON SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT. Text of subsection effective until January 01, 2017 (a) A sex offender correction program that provides counseling sessions...
• Texas Section 493.018 - Care Of Terminally Ill Inmates
  (a) The department may provide direct hospice services for terminally ill inmates and defendants confined in facilities operated by the department or may contract with...
• Texas Section 493.019 - Enforcement Officers
  The inspector general may appoint employees who are certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement as qualified to be peace officers to serve under...
• Texas Section 493.0191 - Administrative Subpoenas
  (a) The inspector general may issue an administrative subpoena to a communications common carrier or an electronic communications service provider to compel the production of...
• Texas Section 493.020 - Seal Of Department
  (a) The department shall use an official seal to certify documents received by the department under Sections 8(a) and (c), Article 42.09, Code of Criminal...
• Texas Section 493.021 - Electronic Creation And Transmission Of Documents
  (a) If a statute requires the department to create a document, the department through electronic means may create and maintain the information that would otherwise...
• Texas Section 493.022 - Polygraph Examination
  An employee of the department who is the subject of a written complaint made by or filed with the department may not be suspended, discharged,...
• Texas Section 493.023 - Charitable Fund-raising
  (a) Under policies established by the department, a department employee may participate in fund-raising activities conducted on department property on the employee's own time for...
• Texas Section 493.024 - Application Of Law Relating To Free Exercise Of Religion
  For purposes of Chapter 110, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, an ordinance, rule, order, decision, or practice that applies to a person in the custody...
• Texas Section 493.025 - Notification Of Court Of Release
  On release of an inmate who discharges the inmate's sentence or on release of an inmate on parole or to mandatory supervision, the department promptly...
• Texas Section 493.026 - Certain Interagency Communications Prohibited
  The department, regardless of available capacity in the program, may not prohibit a parole panel from, or request a parole panel to refrain from, requiring...
• Texas Section 493.027 - Management-employee Meetings
  (a) The director of the department may meet regularly with representatives of an eligible state employee organization, as certified by the comptroller under Section 403.0165,...
• Texas Section 493.028 - Inspector General Report On Criminal Offenses
  (a) In this section, "special prosecution unit" means the special prosecution unit established under Subchapter E, Chapter 41. (b) The inspector general of the department...
• Texas Section 493.029 - Local And Regional Release And Discharge Procedure
  (a) The department shall establish a procedure through which an inmate being discharged from the department or being released on parole or to mandatory supervision...
• Texas Section 493.030 - Notice To Social Security Administration
  (a) The department shall notify the United States Social Security Administration of the release or discharge of a prisoner who: (1) immediately before the prisoner's...
• Texas Section 493.031 - Case Management Committees
  (a) Each facility under the oversight of the correctional institutions division shall establish a case management committee to assess each inmate in the facility and...

Last modified: September 28, 2016