By West S.B. No. 258 76R429 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. Section 502.003(10), Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (10) "Employee" means a person who may be or may have 1-8 been exposed to hazardous chemicals in the person's workplace under 1-9 normal operating conditions or foreseeable emergencies, and 1-10 includes a person working for this state, a person imprisoned in a 1-11 facility operated by or for the Texas Department of Criminal 1-12 Justice and working as a condition of the person's sentence, a 1-13 person working for a political subdivision of this state, or a 1-14 member of a volunteer emergency service organization or, if the 1-15 applicable OSHA standard or MSHA standard is not in effect, a 1-16 person working for a private employer. Workers such as office 1-17 workers or accountants who encounter hazardous chemicals only in 1-18 nonroutine, isolated instances are not employees for purposes of 1-19 this chapter. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.