By Hightower H.B. No. 949 74R4509 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the applicability of the open records law to certain 1-3 incarcerated individuals. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 552, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 552.009 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 552.009. NONAPPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER TO INCARCERATED 1-8 INDIVIDUAL. (a) This chapter does not apply to a person who is an 1-9 inmate imprisoned or confined in a correctional facility. 1-10 (b) In this section, "correctional facility" has the meaning 1-11 assigned by Section 1.07(a), Penal Code. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.