1. (a) Texas Correctional Industries is an office in the department.

2. (b) In this subchapter and Subchapter B:

   1. (1) "Office" means Texas Correctional Industries.
   2. (2) "Articles and products" includes services provided through the use of work program participant labor.

   3. (3) "Work program participant" means a person who:

      1. (A) is an inmate confined in a facility operated by or under contract with the department or a defendant or releasee housed in a facility operated by or under contract with the department; and
      2. (B) works at a job assigned by the office.

Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Renumbered from Sec. 496.001 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.

Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.029, eff. Sept. 1, 1995;

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1409, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 1.14, 1.15, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.