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78R3109 EMT-D
By: Talton H.B. No. 679
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to
inform certain inmates of their right to request to undergo an
orchiectomy.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 501.061, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) The institutional division shall inform each inmate
who meets the requirements of Subsections (a)(1), (2), and (7) that
the inmate may request to undergo an orchiectomy under this
section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.