By Allen                                              H.B. No. 1379
         76R4007 JRD-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the information about an inmate of the Texas Department
 1-3     of Criminal Justice that is subject to public disclosure or
 1-4     excepted from public disclosure.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 552.131 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 552.131.  EXCEPTION:  CERTAIN INFORMATION RELATING TO
 1-9     INMATE OF DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.  (a)  Information is
1-10     excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 if it is
1-11     information about an inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal
1-12     Justice that relates to:
1-13                 (1)  the inmate's medical, psychiatric, or
1-14     psychological condition or the treatment of the inmate for one of
1-15     those conditions;
1-16                 (2)  the inmate's educational attainments, intelligence
1-17     quotient, trust fund account, social history, known enemies,
1-18     disciplinary record, next of kin, or home address; or
1-19                 (3)  a use-of-force incident involving the inmate that
1-20     is still under investigation.
1-21           (b)  Sections 552.023, 552.229, and 552.307 apply to
1-22     information described by Subsection (a) that is requested by the
1-23     inmate or the authorized representative of the inmate to whom the
1-24     information relates.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
 2-2     amended by adding Section 552.029 to read as follows:
 2-3           Sec. 552.029.  RIGHT OF ACCESS TO CERTAIN INFORMATION
 2-4     RELATING TO INMATE OF DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
 2-5     Notwithstanding Section 508.313 or 552.131, information about an
 2-6     inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is subject to
 2-7     required disclosure under Section 552.021 if it is information that
 2-8     relates to:
 2-9                 (1)  the inmate's name, identification number, age, or
2-10     physical description;
2-11                 (2)  the inmate's assigned unit or the date on which
2-12     the unit received the inmate;
2-13                 (3)  the offense for which the inmate was convicted or
2-14     the judgment and sentence for that offense;
2-15                 (4)  the county and court in which the inmate was
2-16     convicted;
2-17                 (5)  the inmate's earliest or latest possible release
2-18     dates;
2-19                 (6)  the inmate's parole date or earliest possible
2-20     parole date; or
2-21                 (7)  any prior confinement of the inmate by the Texas
2-22     Department of Criminal Justice or its predecessor.
2-23           SECTION 3.  Section 508.313, Government Code, is amended by
2-24     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
2-25           (f)  This section does not apply to information that is
2-26     subject to required public disclosure under Section 552.029.
2-27           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 3-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-6     passage, and it is so enacted.