By: Luna S.B. No. 837 73R6514 NSC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of smoking in cells housing inmates of 1-3 the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal 1-4 Justice, certain public areas in the institutional division, and 1-5 vehicles transporting inmates of the institutional division. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 501, Government Code, is 1-8 amended by adding Section 501.018 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 501.018. SMOKING. (a) The institutional division 1-10 shall designate a sufficient number of cells as nonsmoking cells. 1-11 On request of an inmate, the division shall house the inmate in a 1-12 nonsmoking cell. The division shall prohibit smoking in a 1-13 nonsmoking cell. 1-14 (b) The institutional division shall designate a nonsmoking 1-15 area in each public indoor area in the division in which inmates or 1-16 visitors may gather. The division shall prohibit smoking in 1-17 nonsmoking areas. 1-18 (c) The institutional division shall prohibit smoking in a 1-19 vehicle of the division in which inmates are being transported. 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.