By Shapleigh                                           S.B. No. 744
         76R5924 JD-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requests for information under the public information
 1-3     law from incarcerated individuals and their agents.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 552.028(a) and (b), Government Code, are
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A governmental body is not required to accept or comply
 1-8     with a request for information from:
 1-9                 (1)  an individual who is imprisoned or confined in a
1-10     correctional facility; or
1-11                 (2)  an agent of that individual, other than that
1-12     individual's attorney.
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.