Bill Text: TX HB30 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to access to certain law enforcement, corrections, and prosecutorial records under the public information law.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB30 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB30-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 30 |
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relating to access to certain law enforcement, corrections, and | ||
prosecutorial records under the public information law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 552.108, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) The exception to disclosure provided by Subsection | ||
(a)(2) does not apply to information, records, or notations if: | ||
(1) a person who is described by or depicted in the | ||
information, record, or notation, other than a peace officer, is | ||
deceased or incapacitated; or | ||
(2) each person who is described by or depicted in the | ||
information, record, or notation, other than a person who is | ||
deceased or incapacitated, consents to the release of the | ||
information, record, or notation. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a request for public information received by a governmental body | ||
or an officer for public information on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 30 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 24, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 30 on May 23, 2023, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 30 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 125, | ||
Nays 15, 2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 30 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
30 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |