Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 511.0093. Rules and Fees Related to Out-Of-State Inmates

(a) The commission may impose a fee on a private vendor that operates a correctional facility housing prisoners from jurisdictions other than this state.  The fee must reasonably compensate the commission for the cost of regulating and providing technical assistance to the facility.

(b) The commission may adopt rules regulating the number of federal prisoners and prisoners from jurisdictions other than Texas that are housed in a county jail, a municipal jail, or a correctional facility operated by a private vendor under contract with a municipality if the jail or correctional facility houses state, county, or municipal prisoners or prisoners of another state of the United States.

(c) The commission may adopt other rules regulating jails or correctional facilities described by Subsection (b) as necessary to protect the health and safety of prisoners described by Subsection (b), local and Texas prisoners, jail personnel, and the public.