By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1443
         76R6309 GWK-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the use of inmates by the Texas Department of Criminal
 1-3     Justice in training dogs to  attack.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 501.021, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 501.021.  USE OF INMATES IN TRAINING PROHIBITED.  The
 1-8     department may not use an inmate in a program that trains dogs to
 1-9     attack individuals [without the inmate's permission].
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.