1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 744
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 2, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to requests for information under the public information
1-9 law from incarcerated individuals and their agents.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 552.028,
1-12 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) A governmental body is not required to accept or comply
1-14 with a request for information from:
1-15 (1) an individual who is imprisoned or confined in a
1-16 correctional facility; or
1-17 (2) an agent of that individual, other than that
1-18 individual's attorney.
1-19 (b) This section [Subsection (a)] does not prohibit a
1-20 governmental body from disclosing to an individual described by
1-21 Subsection (a)(1), or that individual's agent, [that subsection]
1-22 information held by the governmental body pertaining to that
1-23 individual.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30 passage, and it is so enacted.
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