1-1     By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 840
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2001; February 22, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 9, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the response required of a governmental body to a
 1-9     request for information from a person who is incarcerated.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 552.028, Government Code,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  In this section, "correctional facility" means a place
1-14     designated by the law of this state, another state, or the federal
1-15     government for the confinement of a person arrested for, charged
1-16     with, or convicted of a criminal offense [has the meaning assigned
1-17     by Section 1.07(a), Penal Code].
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-19     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-20     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-21     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-22     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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