By: Madla S.B. No. 188 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to creating an offense for possession of certain 1-2 information by an inmate of the institutional division or the state 1-3 jail division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 38.111, Penal Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) An inmate of the institutional division or a person 1-8 confined in a state jail felony facility commits an offense if with 1-9 intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud 1-10 another the inmate or person possesses a written document or other 1-11 tangible item that contains personal information about another or 1-12 discloses or uses personal information about another that the 1-13 inmate or person has access to by means of participation in a work 1-14 program operated by or for the institutional division or state jail 1-15 division. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.