75R11371 GWK-F By Jones of Dallas, Kamel H.B. No. 917 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 917: By Edwards C.S.H.B. No. 917 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to contracts for inmate labor entered into by the Texas 1-3 Department of Criminal Justice that provide inmates with access to 1-4 personal information about persons who are not confined. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 497, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 497.011 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 497.011. CERTAIN CONTRACTS PROHIBITED; SEARCHES. 1-9 (a) The department may not enter into a contract with a private 1-10 business or public entity that requires or permits an inmate 1-11 confined in a correctional facility operated by or for the 1-12 department who is serving a sentence for an offense for which a 1-13 defendant is required to register as a sex offender under Article 1-14 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes, to have access to personal 1-15 information about persons who are not confined in facilities 1-16 operated by or for the department. 1-17 (b) If the department enters into a contract with a private 1-18 business or public entity that requires or permits an inmate 1-19 confined in a correctional facility operated by or for the 1-20 department to have access to personal information about persons who 1-21 are not confined in facilities operated by or for the department, 1-22 the department shall on each occasion in which an inmate enters or 1-23 leaves the work area require the inmate to submit to a personal 1-24 search by department personnel. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.