Sec. 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 Government Code, or a municipality under Subchapter E, Chapter 361, Local Government Code, that enters into a contract with any entity to house in this state inmates convicted of offenses committed against the laws of another state of the United States must require as a condition of the contract that each inmate to be released from custody must be released in the sending state.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 175, Sec. 1, eff. May 21, 1997.