73R4911 CBH-D
          By Junell, Martin, McDonald                           H.B. No. 1002
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application of the sales and use tax to food
    1-3  products sold to prison inmates.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 151.314, Tax Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  The exemption provided by Subsection (d)(3) does not
    1-8  apply to food products, meals, soft drinks, and candy for human
    1-9  consumption sold to a person confined in a correctional facility
   1-10  operated under the authority or jurisdiction of or under contract
   1-11  with this state or a political subdivision of the state.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.