By Brown S.B. No. 37 74R1547 JD-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 the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal 1-4 Justice. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 497, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 497.097 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 497.097. LIMITATION OF ACCESS BY INMATES TO PERSONAL 1-9 INFORMATION. An entity using inmate labor under this chapter shall 1-10 prevent access by an inmate at work to the following information 1-11 about any individual: 1-12 (1) home telephone number; 1-13 (2) home address; 1-14 (3) address of place of employment; 1-15 (4) age; 1-16 (5) marital status; 1-17 (6) spouse's name; 1-18 (7) children's names and ages; and 1-19 (8) social security number. 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.