1-1 By: West S.B. No. 258 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 22, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 258 By: West 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the applicability of the Hazard Communication Act to 1-11 certain inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Chapter 502, Health and Safety Code, is amended 1-14 by adding Section 502.020 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 502.020. WORKPLACE SAFETY FOR INMATES. A person 1-16 imprisoned in a facility operated by or for the Texas Department of 1-17 Criminal Justice is not an employee for the purposes of this 1-18 chapter. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall provide a 1-19 person imprisoned in a facility operated by or for the Texas 1-20 Department of Criminal Justice the protections from exposure to 1-21 hazardous chemicals in the workplace as provided for in this 1-22 chapter. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *