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.