By Madla                                              S.B. No. 1097
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring the institutional division of the Texas
 1-3     Department of Criminal Justice to maintain current photographs of
 1-4     inmates.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Chapter 494, Government Code, is amended by adding
 1-7     Section 494.013 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 494.013.  PHOTOGRAPHS. The institutional division at
 1-9     least once each calendar year shall take a photograph of an inmate
1-10     and place the photograph in the inmate's file, with a notation
1-11     indicating the date on which the photograph was taken.
1-12           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.