1-1 By: McClendon, et al. (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 134 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the applicability of the Hazard Communication Act to 1-9 certain inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 502, Health and Safety Code, is amended 1-12 by adding Section 502.020 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 502.020. APPLICATION TO CERTAIN STATE INMATES. 1-14 Although a person imprisoned in a facility operated by or for the 1-15 Texas Department of Criminal Justice is not an employee for the 1-16 purposes of this Act, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 1-17 shall provide a person imprisoned in a facility operated by or for 1-18 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with the protections from 1-19 exposure to hazardous chemicals in the workplace as provided for in 1-20 this Act. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-27 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-28 * * * * *