By: martin H.B. No. 230 73R220 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to certain personal information by an inmate of 1-3 a state prison. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 500, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 500.007 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 500.007. ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION. (a) Except 1-8 as provided by Subsection (b), the institutional division shall 1-9 prohibit access by an inmate to information concerning an 1-10 individual's: 1-11 (1) telephone number; 1-12 (2) home address; 1-13 (3) address of place of employment; 1-14 (4) social security number; 1-15 (5) credit account number or other credit records; 1-16 (6) medical prescription records; or 1-17 (7) insurance records. 1-18 (b) This section does not apply to: 1-19 (1) information relating to the inmate requesting the 1-20 information; or 1-21 (2) a telephone directory or other regularly published 1-22 compilation of information available to the public. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.