By Kamel H.B. No. 1349 75R6334 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the ability of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 1-3 to enter into contracts for inmate labor that provide inmates with 1-4 access to 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. The department 1-9 may not enter into a contract with another public entity that 1-10 requires or permits an inmate confined in a correctional facility 1-11 operated by or for the department to have access to personal 1-12 information about persons who are not confined in facilities 1-13 operated by or for the department. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997, and 1-15 applies to a contract initially entered into by the Texas 1-16 Department of Criminal Justice on or after that date. A contract 1-17 entered into by the department before the effective date of this 1-18 Act and a renewal of that contract, regardless of when the renewal 1-19 is executed, is covered by the law in effect when the contract was 1-20 entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-21 purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.