By Culberson                                           H.B. No. 694
       74R2130 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to access to certain personal information by an inmate of
    1-3  a prison or jail or an offender who is released on parole,
    1-4  community supervision, or mandatory supervision.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 552.231 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 552.231.  LIMITATION OF ACCESS BY OFFENDERS TO PERSONAL
    1-9  INFORMATION.  (a)  Notwithstanding Sections 552.021 and 552.223, an
   1-10  officer for public records or the officer's agent may not provide
   1-11  to an offender any access to or a copy of the following information
   1-12  about an individual contained in a public record:
   1-13              (1)  home telephone number;
   1-14              (2)  home address;
   1-15              (3)  address of place of employment;
   1-16              (4)  age;
   1-17              (5)  marital status;
   1-18              (6)  spouse's name;
   1-19              (7)  children's names and ages; and
   1-20              (8)  social security number.
   1-21        (b)  In this section, "offender" means a defendant in a
   1-22  criminal prosecution during the period in which the defendant:
   1-23              (1)  is confined by order of a court in any prison or
   1-24  jail; or
    2-1              (2)  is under the supervision of a community
    2-2  supervision and corrections department or the pardons and paroles
    2-3  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 497, Government Code, is
    2-5  amended by adding Section 497.097 to read as follows:
    2-6        Sec. 497.097.  LIMITATION OF ACCESS BY INMATES TO PERSONAL
    2-7  INFORMATION.  An entity using inmate labor under this chapter shall
    2-8  prevent access by an inmate at work to the following information
    2-9  about any individual:
   2-10              (1)  home telephone number;
   2-11              (2)  home address;
   2-12              (3)  address of place of employment;
   2-13              (4)  age;
   2-14              (5)  marital status;
   2-15              (6)  spouse's name;
   2-16              (7)  children's names and ages; and
   2-17              (8)  social security number.
   2-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.