By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 420
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to certain contracts for inmate labor and to criminal and
 1-2     administrative consequences for inmates who gain access to certain
 1-3     information while performing inmate labor.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 497, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 497.011 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 497.011.  CERTAIN CONTRACTS PROHIBITED.  The department
 1-8     may not enter into a contract with a private business or public
 1-9     entity that requires or permits an inmate confined in a
1-10     correctional facility operated by or for the department to have
1-11     access to personal information about persons who are not confined
1-12     in facilities operated by or for the department.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Sections 497.098, 498.0041, and 507.028,
1-14     Government Code, are repealed.
1-15           SECTION 3.  Section 38.111, Penal Code, is repealed.
1-16           SECTION 4.  Section 1 of this Act applies only to a contract
1-17     entered into by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on or
1-18     after the effective date of this Act.  A contract entered into by
1-19     the department before the effective date of this Act is covered by
1-20     the law in effect when the contract was entered into, and the
1-21     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-22           SECTION 5.  (a)  The repeal by this Act of Section 38.111,
1-23     Penal Code, does not apply to an offense committed under that
1-24     section before the effective date of the repeal. For purposes of
 2-1     this section, an offense is committed before the effective date of
 2-2     the repeal if any element of the offense occurs before that date.
 2-3           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of the
 2-4     repeal is covered by Section 38.111, Penal Code, as it existed on
 2-5     the date on which the offense was committed, and the former law is
 2-6     continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-7           SECTION 6.  Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of Section
 2-8     498.0041, Government Code, the director of the institutional
 2-9     division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall forfeit
2-10     good conduct time earned by an inmate convicted of an offense under
2-11     Section 38.111, Penal Code, as provided by Section 498.0041,
2-12     Government Code, regardless of whether the conviction occurs
2-13     before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, and Section
2-14     498.0041, Government Code, is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-15           SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-16           SECTION 8.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.