By Wilson                                        H.B. No. 383

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the use of inmates by the Texas Department of Criminal

 1-3     Justice in training dogs to  attack.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 501.021, Government Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 501.021.  USE OF INMATES IN TRAINING PROHIBITED.  The

 1-8     department may not use an inmate in a program that trains dogs to

 1-9     attack individuals [without the inmate's permission].

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.