AN ACT
 1-1     relating to requests for information under the public information
 1-2     law from incarcerated individuals and their agents.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 552.028,
 1-5     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A governmental body is not required to accept or comply
 1-7     with a request for information from:
 1-8                 (1)  an individual who is imprisoned or confined in a
 1-9     correctional facility; or
1-10                 (2)  an agent of that individual, other than that
1-11     individual's attorney when the attorney is requesting information
1-12     that is subject to disclosure under this chapter.
1-13           (b)  This section [Subsection (a)] does not prohibit a
1-14     governmental body from disclosing to an individual described by
1-15     Subsection (a)(1), or that individual's agent, [that subsection]
1-16     information held by the governmental body pertaining to that
1-17     individual.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 744 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 10, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 744 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 4, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 140,
         Nays 0, one present not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor