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.

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