By Shapiro                                             S.B. No. 420
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                                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1-15     Government Code, are repealed.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  Section 38.111, Penal Code, is repealed.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.