By Shapiro S.B. No. 420 76R144 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain contracts for inmate labor and to criminal and 1-3 administrative consequences for inmates who gain access to certain 1-4 information while performing inmate labor. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 497, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 497.011 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 497.011. CERTAIN CONTRACTS PROHIBITED. The department 1-9 may not enter into a contract with a private business or public 1-10 entity that requires or permits an inmate confined in a 1-11 correctional facility operated by or for the department to have 1-12 access to personal information about persons who are not confined 1-13 in facilities operated by or for the department. 1-14 SECTION 2. Sections 497.098, 498.0041, and 507.028, 1-15 Government Code, are repealed. 1-16 SECTION 3. Section 38.111, Penal Code, is repealed. 1-17 SECTION 4. Section 1 of this Act applies only to a contract 1-18 entered into by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on or 1-19 after the effective date of this Act. A contract entered into by 1-20 the department before the effective date of this Act is covered by 1-21 the law in effect when the contract was entered into, and the 1-22 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-23 SECTION 5. (a) The repeal by this Act of Section 38.111, 1-24 Penal Code, does not apply to an offense committed under that 2-1 section before the effective date of the repeal. For purposes of 2-2 this section, an offense is committed before the effective date of 2-3 the repeal if any element of the offense occurs before that date. 2-4 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of the 2-5 repeal is covered by that section as it existed on the date on 2-6 which the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in 2-7 effect for that purpose. 2-8 SECTION 6. Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of Section 2-9 498.0041, Government Code, the director of the institutional 2-10 division shall forfeit good conduct time earned by an inmate 2-11 convicted of an offense under Section 38.111, Penal Code, as 2-12 provided by Section 498.0041, regardless of whether the conviction 2-13 occurs before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, and 2-14 Section 498.0041 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.