By Ramsay, Averitt, Pitts                               H.B. No. 91
       74R1645 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to restricting certain recreational amenities available to
    1-3  inmates imprisoned in the institutional division of the Texas
    1-4  Department of Criminal Justice.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 501, Government Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 501.018 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 501.018.  RECREATIONAL AMENITIES.  The institutional
    1-9  division may not allow an inmate access to:
   1-10              (1)  weight-lifting equipment or accessories; or
   1-11              (2)  use of a television or computer other than in
   1-12  connection with a programmatic activity, such as a work,
   1-13  educational, or vocational activity.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.