1-1 By: Whitmire S.B. No. 402 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1995; February 14, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 21, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, 1-5 Nays 0; March 21, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the application of the sales and use tax to certain 1-9 products sold to inmates. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 151.314, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-12 Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-13 (g) The exemption provided by Subsection (d)(3) does not 1-14 apply to food products, meals, soft drinks, and candy for human 1-15 consumption sold to a person confined in a correctional facility 1-16 operated under the authority or jurisdiction of or under contract 1-17 with this state or a political subdivision of the state. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect October 1, 1995. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-24 * * * * *