1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the  applicability of the Hazard Communication Act to
 1-3     certain inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 502, Health and Safety Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 502.020 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 502.020.  APPLICATION TO CERTAIN STATE INMATES.
 1-8     Although a person imprisoned in a facility operated by or for the
 1-9     Texas Department of Criminal Justice is not an employee for the
1-10     purposes of this Act, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-11     shall provide a person imprisoned in a facility operated by or for
1-12     the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with the protections from
1-13     exposure to hazardous chemicals in the workplace as provided for in
1-14     this Act.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 134 was passed by the House on April
         8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 134 was passed by the Senate on May
         20, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor