By Hightower H.B. No. 2206 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to open records requests for inmates. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 6252-17a, Civil Statutes, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsections (17)(c) and (24) to read as follows: 1-6 (a) All information collected, assembled, or maintained by 1-7 or for governmental bodies, except in those situations where the 1-8 governmental body does not have either a right of access to or 1-9 ownership of the information, pursuant to law or ordinance or in 1-10 connection with the transaction of official business is public 1-11 information and available to the public during normal business 1-12 hours of any governmental body, with the following exceptions only: 1-13 (17) information relating to: 1-14 (C) the home address or home phone number or 1-15 social security number of an individual. 1-16 (24) information requested from the Texas Department 1-17 of Criminal Justice, Texas Board of Criminal Justice, or Texas 1-18 Board of Pardons and Paroles by any person who is in the custody 1-19 thereof. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.