1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 420 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1999; February 8, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, 1-5 Nays 0; March 8, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to certain contracts for inmate labor and to criminal and 1-9 administrative consequences for inmates who gain access to certain 1-10 information while performing inmate labor. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 497, Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 497.011 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 497.011. CERTAIN CONTRACTS PROHIBITED. The department 1-15 may not enter into a contract with a private business or public 1-16 entity that requires or permits an inmate confined in a 1-17 correctional facility operated by or for the department to have 1-18 access to personal information about persons who are not confined 1-19 in facilities operated by or for the department. 1-20 SECTION 2. Sections 497.098, 498.0041, and 507.028, 1-21 Government Code, are repealed. 1-22 SECTION 3. Section 38.111, Penal Code, is repealed. 1-23 SECTION 4. Section 1 of this Act applies only to a contract 1-24 entered into by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on or 1-25 after the effective date of this Act. A contract entered into by 1-26 the department before the effective date of this Act is covered by 1-27 the law in effect when the contract was entered into, and the 1-28 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-29 SECTION 5. (a) The repeal by this Act of Section 38.111, 1-30 Penal Code, does not apply to an offense committed under that 1-31 section before the effective date of the repeal. For purposes of 1-32 this section, an offense is committed before the effective date of 1-33 the repeal if any element of the offense occurs before that date. 1-34 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of the 1-35 repeal is covered by Section 38.111, Penal Code, as it existed on 1-36 the date on which the offense was committed, and the former law is 1-37 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-38 SECTION 6. Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of Section 1-39 498.0041, Government Code, the director of the institutional 1-40 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall forfeit 1-41 good conduct time earned by an inmate convicted of an offense under 1-42 Section 38.111, Penal Code, as provided by Section 498.0041, 1-43 Government Code, regardless of whether the conviction occurs 1-44 before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, and Section 1-45 498.0041, Government Code, is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-46 SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-47 SECTION 8. The importance of this legislation and the 1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-52 * * * * *