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.
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