1-1  By:  Alvarado, Raymond, et al.                         H.B. No. 462
    1-2       (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)
    1-3        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-4  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-5  Criminal Justice; April 28, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-6  following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the application of the sales and use tax to food
   1-10  products sold to prison inmates.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 151.314, Tax Code, is amended by adding
   1-13  Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-14        (g)  The exemption provided by Subsection (d)(3) does not
   1-15  apply to food products, meals, soft drinks, and candy for human
   1-16  consumption sold to a person confined in a correctional facility
   1-17  operated under the authority or jurisdiction of or under contract
   1-18  with this state or a political subdivision of the state.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  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.
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