1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 188 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 9, 1997; January 15, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 February 12, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; 1-6 February 12, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 188 By: Patterson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to creating an offense for possession of certain 1-11 information by an inmate of the institutional division or the state 1-12 jail division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 38.111, Penal Code, is 1-15 amended to read as follows: 1-16 (a) An inmate of the institutional division or a person 1-17 confined in a state jail felony facility commits an offense if with 1-18 intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud 1-19 another the inmate or person possesses a written document or other 1-20 tangible item that contains personal information about another or 1-21 discloses or uses personal information about another that the 1-22 inmate or person has access to by means of participation in a work 1-23 program operated by or for the institutional division or state jail 1-24 division. 1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-31 * * * * *