By Madla                                         S.B. No. 188

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to creating an offense for possession of certain

 1-3     information by an inmate of the institutional division or the state

 1-4     jail division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 38.111(a), Penal Code, is amended to read

 1-7     as follows:

 1-8           (a)  An inmate of the institutional division or a person

 1-9     confined in a state jail felony facility commits an offense if with

1-10     intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud

1-11     another the inmate or person possesses, discloses, or uses personal

1-12     information about another that the inmate or person has access to

1-13     by means of participation in a work program operated by or for the

1-14     institutional division or state jail division.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.