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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