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1-21     Government Code, are repealed.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  Section 38.111, Penal Code, is repealed.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.
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