By: Wentworth S.B. No. 840
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the response required of a governmental body to a
1-3 request for information from a person who is incarcerated.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 552.028, Government Code,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) In this section, "correctional facility" means a place
1-8 designated by the law of this state, another state, or the federal
1-9 government for the confinement of a person arrested for, charged
1-10 with, or convicted of a criminal offense [has the meaning assigned
1-11 by Section 1.07(a), Penal Code].
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-13 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-14 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-15 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-16 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.