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.
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