By Allen H.B. No. 2764
74R7964 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the sale of articles or products manufactured in a
1-3 correctional facility.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 497.035(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally
1-8 sells or offers to sell on the open market in this state an article
1-9 or product the person knows was manufactured in whole or in part by
1-10 an inmate of the institutional division or an inmate in a
1-11 correctional facility in any other state, other than an inmate:
1-12 (1) who was on community supervision, <probation or>
1-13 parole, or mandatory supervision;
1-14 (2) <or> employed by an enterprise who has employed
1-15 the inmate to advantage themselves of the Franchise Tax Credit
1-16 offered under Subchapter L, Chapter 171, Tax Code, at the time of
1-17 manufacture; or
1-18 (3) participating in a federally certified prison
1-19 industry enhancement program.
1-20 SECTION 2. 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,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.