By:  Uher                                             H.B. No. 1661
       73R6264 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to access by an inmate of the institutional division of
    1-3  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to certain personal
    1-4  information about employees of the institutional division.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 494, Government Code, is amended by
    1-7  adding Section 494.011 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 494.011.  LIMITATION OF ACCESS BY INMATES TO PERSONAL
    1-9  INFORMATION.  The institutional division shall prevent access by an
   1-10  inmate to records of the division containing the following
   1-11  information about an employee of the division:
   1-12              (1)  home telephone number;
   1-13              (2)  home address;
   1-14              (3)  address of place of employment;
   1-15              (4)  age;
   1-16              (5)  marital status;
   1-17              (6)  spouse's name;
   1-18              (7)  children's names and ages; and
   1-19              (8)  social security number.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.