Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 499 - Population Management; Special Programs

SUBCHAPTER A PRE-PAROLE TRANSFER

• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 499.003 - Transfer From Jail Or Other Correctional Facility
  (a) A person is eligible for transfer under this section from a jail or correctional institution to a secure community residential facility if: (1) the...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 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...

SUBCHAPTER B POPULATION MANAGEMENT

• Texas Section 499.007 - Legislative Intent
  It is the intent of the legislature that this subchapter not create an expectation of release on the part of any individual. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 499.021 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Capacity" means the greatest density of inmates in relation to space available for inmate housing in the institutional division that is...
• Texas Section 499.022 - Purpose
  (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to: (1) allow the institutional division the flexibility to house inmates in appropriate settings and determine the proper...
• Texas Section 499.023 - Inapplicability
  This subchapter does not apply to emergency overcrowding if the situation is the direct result of the destruction of institutional division facilities by a natural...
• Texas Section 499.024 - Calculation Of Available Space
  Temporary housing may not be considered for the purpose of computation of space available for inmate housing. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212,...
• Texas Section 499.025 - Award Of Administrative Good Conduct Time; Advancement Of Parole Eligibility Date
  (a) If the inmate population of the institutional division reaches 99 percent or more of capacity, the director shall immediately notify the executive director and...
• Texas Section 499.026 - Release Procedure
  (a) If a parole panel releases an inmate under this subchapter, the panel shall impose conditions and limitations as appropriate on the parolee and to...

SUBCHAPTER C MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAMS

• Texas Section 499.027 - Eligible Inmates
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and subject to the conditions imposed by this subchapter, an inmate is eligible under this subchapter to be...
• Texas Section 499.051 - Notification Of Release Of Gang Member
  (a) On the release of an inmate determined by the department to be a member of a security threat group, the department shall notify the...
• Texas Section 499.053 - Transfers From Texas Juvenile Justice Department Or Post-adjudication Secure Correctional Facility
  (a) In this section, "post-adjudication secure correctional facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 152.00011, Human Resources Code. (a-1) The department shall accept persons transferred...
• Texas Section 499.054 - Sex Offender Treatment Program
  (a) In this section, "sex offender treatment program" means a comprehensive treatment program that: (1) psychologically evaluates inmates who are serving a sentence for an...

SUBCHAPTER D ALLOCATION FORMULAS

• Texas Section 499.055 - Population Management Based On Inmate Health
  The department shall adopt policies designed to manage inmate population based on similar health conditions suffered by inmates. The policies adopted under this section must...
• Texas Section 499.071 - Scheduled Admissions Policy
  The board shall adopt and enforce a scheduled admissions policy that permits the institutional division to accept inmates within 45 days of processing as required...

SUBCHAPTER E UNIT AND SYSTEM CAPACITY

• Texas Section 499.072 - Location Of Central Prison Unit
  (a) The department shall conduct a feasibility study of relocating the Central Prison Unit and the adjoining prison housing units from their current location in...
• Texas Section 499.101 - Existing Units
  (a) The maximum capacities for the units in the institutional division are as follows: Beto I3,000Beto II888Boyd1,012Briscoe1,012Central720Clemens851Clements2,200Coffield3,000Daniel1,012Darrington1,610Diagnostic1,365Eastham2,050Ellis I1,900Ellis II2,260Ferguson2,100Gatesville1,571Goree1,058Hightower1,012Hilltop761Hobby1,012Hughes2,264Huntsville1,705Jester I323Jester II378Jester III908Lewis1,012McConnell2,264Michael2,264Mountain View718Pack I864Pack II1,088Panpa1,012Ramsey...
• Texas Section 499.102 - Staff Determinations And Recommendations
  (a) The staff of the institutional division, on its own initiative or as directed by the governor or the board, may recommend to the administration...
• Texas Section 499.103 - Notice To Inmates
  (a) The director of the institutional division shall prominently display in areas accessible to inmates housed in a unit for which the staff has recommended...
• Texas Section 499.104 - Officers' Review And Recommendation
  The executive director of the department, the director of the institutional division, the deputy director for operations, the deputy director for finance, the deputy director...
• Texas Section 499.105 - Board Review And Recommendation
  The board shall review the recommendation and findings forwarded to the board under Section 499.104. Not later than the 60th day after the date the...
• Texas Section 499.106 - Governor's Review And Recommendation
  The governor shall review the recommendation and findings forwarded to the governor under Section 499.105. The governor shall determine whether population pressures otherwise making an...
• Texas Section 499.107 - Attorney General Review; Board Decision
  (a) The attorney general shall review the recommendation and findings forwarded to the attorney general under Section 499.106 to determine whether the institutional division may...
• Texas Section 499.108 - Capacity For New Units
  (a) Before construction begins on a unit of the institutional division for which construction was not approved before January 1, 1991, the board shall establish...
• Texas Section 499.109 - System Capacity
  (a) The inmate population of the institutional division may not exceed 100 percent of the combined capacities of each unit in the division, as determined...

SUBCHAPTER F PROCEDURES FOR REDUCING COUNTY JAIL BACKLOG

• Texas Section 499.110 - Administrative Procedure Act
  Subchapter B, Chapter 2001, applies to all reviews, recommendations, and decisions made under Sections 499.102-499.109. Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 655, Sec. 2,...
• Texas Section 499.121 - Legislative Declaration; Mandamus
  (a) The legislature declares that until September 1, 1995, the institutional division shall continue to perform its duty to accept inmates only as provided by...
• Texas Section 499.122 - Inmate Count
  The Commission on Jail Standards shall analyze monthly the population of each jail in this state that is the jail for a qualifying county and...
• Texas Section 499.123 - Payment
  (a) Not later than the 32nd day after the effective date of this subchapter, the Commission on Jail Standards shall determine for each jail in...
• Texas Section 499.124 - Emergency Overcrowding Relief
  (a) From the effective date of this subchapter until August 31, 1993, for each month in which the number of inmates confined in a jail...
• Texas Section 499.125 - Transfer Of Felony Backlog
  (a) If a state or federal court determines that conditions in a county jail are unconstitutional, and if on or after October 1, 1991, the...

SUBCHAPTER G TRANSFER FACILITIES

• Texas Section 499.126 - Definition
  (a) In this subchapter, "qualifying county" means a county that: (1) on or after the effective date of this subchapter does not initiate or become...
• Texas Section 499.151 - Authority To Operate Or Contract For Transfer Facilities
  (a) The institutional division may operate, maintain, and manage transfer facilities to confine inmates described by Section 499.152, and the board may finance and construct...
• Texas Section 499.152 - Eligible Inmates
  The institutional division may confine an inmate in a transfer facility authorized by this subchapter: (1) only if paperwork and processing required under Section 8(a),...
• Texas Section 499.153 - Admissions Policy
  The board shall develop, adopt, and enforce: (1) an admissions policy to accept from county jails eligible inmates described by Section 499.152 for confinement in...
• Texas Section 499.154 - Custody Status; Good Conduct Time
  An inmate described by Section 499.152 confined in a transfer facility authorized by this subchapter earns good conduct time in the same manner and subject...
• Texas Section 499.155 - Duration Of Confinement
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the institutional division may not confine an inmate described by Section 499.152 in a transfer facility authorized by...

Last modified: September 28, 2016