By Madla S.B. No. 188 75R2241 PEP-D 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.