By:  Rodriguez                                        H.B. No. 2021
       73R5242 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the provision of meals to certain employees of the
    1-3  Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 493.013 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 493.013.  EMPLOYEES' MEALS.  (a)  The department may
    1-8  provide meals to department employees who reside in employee
    1-9  dormitories or work inside units of the institutional division at a
   1-10  cost of not less than $1 per meal.
   1-11        (b)  The department may reimburse a department employee on
   1-12  travel status for not more than two meals per shift, in an amount
   1-13  per meal established by the General Appropriations Act.
   1-14        (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice employee meal
   1-15  account is established in the general revenue fund.  The department
   1-16  shall deposit all money paid by department employees for meals
   1-17  under Subsection (a) in the account.  The legislature may
   1-18  appropriate money in the account only for the purpose of preparing
   1-19  and providing meals for employees as provided by Subsection (a).
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Section 494.007, Government Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 494.007.  Employees' Salaries, LODGING, <Room> and
   1-23  <Board,> Medical Care.  (a)  Salaries of employees of the
   1-24  institutional division and the provision of <board,> lodging,
    2-1  uniforms, and other provisions to employees are as provided by the
    2-2  General Appropriations Act.
    2-3        (b)  Employees of the institutional division who are injured
    2-4  in the line of duty are entitled to receive free medical care and
    2-5  hospitalization from division doctors and the division hospital.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.