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. 1-25 * * * * *