Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 495 - Contracts For Correctional Facilities And Services

SUBCHAPTER A CONTRACTS WITH PRIVATE VENDORS AND COMMISSIONERS COURTS

• Texas Section 495.001 - Authority To Contract
  (a) The board may contract with a private vendor or with the commissioners court of a county for the financing, construction, operation, maintenance, or management...
• Texas Section 495.002 - Inmates
  The institutional division may confine only minimum or medium security inmates in a facility authorized by this subchapter. An inmate confined in a facility authorized...
• Texas Section 495.003 - Contract Proposals; Qualifications And Standards
  (a) The board may not award a contract under this subchapter unless the board requests proposals and receives a proposal that meets or exceeds, in...
• Texas Section 495.004 - Limitation On Authority Over Inmates
  A private vendor or county operating under a contract authorized by this subchapter may not: (1) compute inmate release and parole eligibility dates; (2) award...
• Texas Section 495.005 - Civil Liability
  A private vendor operating under a contract authorized by this subchapter may not claim sovereign immunity in a suit arising from the services performed under...
• Texas Section 495.006 - Conversion Of Facility
  The board may not convert a facility into a correctional facility operated by a private vendor or by a county if, before April 14, 1987,...
• Texas Section 495.007 - Limitation
  The board may not enter into contracts under this subchapter for more than 5,580 beds. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 10,...

SUBCHAPTER B MISCELLANEOUS CONTRACTS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES

• Texas Section 495.008 - Auditing And Monitoring Contracts
  (a) The department shall develop a comprehensive methodology for enhanced auditing and monitoring of all facilities operated under contract with the department that house inmates...
• Texas Section 495.021 - Lease-purchase, Installment Contracts
  (a) The board may contract with the commissioners court of a county to use, lease-purchase, purchase on an installment contract, or acquire in any other...
• Texas Section 495.022 - Contracts With Federal Government
  (a) The board may contract with the federal government for the lease of any military base or other federal facility that is not being used...
• Texas Section 495.023 - Contracts For Diagnostic And Evaluation Services
  (a) The institutional division shall request proposals and may award one contract to a private vendor or community supervision and corrections department to screen and...
• Texas Section 495.024 - Release Of Out-of-state Inmates
  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...
• Texas Section 495.025 - Certain Commissary Contracts; Taste Tests
  (a) For the purchase of commissary food goods, the department may conduct a taste test as consideration for a bid award only if, to conduct...
• Texas Section 495.026 - Product Bundling, Bulk Purchasing, And Vendor Discounts
  The department may provide for the practice of bundling products into categories to ensure savings through bulk purchasing, discounts for advance invoice payments, and online...
• Texas Section 495.027 - Inmate Pay Telephone Service
  (a) The board shall request proposals from private vendors for a contract to provide pay telephone service to eligible inmates confined in facilities operated by...
• Texas Section 495.028 - Implementation Of Reentry And Reintegration Plan
  (a) The department may contract and coordinate with private vendors, units of local government, or other entities to implement the comprehensive reentry and reintegration plan...

Last modified: September 28, 2016