Bill Text: TX HB2177 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the disclosure of certain electronic customer data by a provider of an electronic communications service or a remote computing service in certain immediate life-threatening situations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - Filed [HB2177 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2177-Introduced.html
| 89R7698 JCG-F | ||
| By: Harless | H.B. No. 2177 | |
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| relating to authorizing the disclosure of certain electronic | ||
| customer data by a provider of an electronic communications service | ||
| or a remote computing service in certain immediate life-threatening | ||
| situations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Articles 18B.502(a) and (b), Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) and Article | ||
| 18B.5025, a provider of an electronic communications service may | ||
| not knowingly divulge the contents of a communication that is in | ||
| electronic storage. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) and Article | ||
| 18B.5025, a provider of a remote computing service may not | ||
| knowingly divulge the contents of a communication that: | ||
| (1) is in electronic storage on behalf of a subscriber | ||
| or customer of the service provider; | ||
| (2) is received by means of electronic transmission | ||
| from the subscriber or customer or created by means of computer | ||
| processing of communications received by means of electronic | ||
| transmission from the subscriber or customer; and | ||
| (3) is solely for the purpose of providing storage or | ||
| computer processing services to the subscriber or customer, if the | ||
| service provider is not authorized to obtain access to the contents | ||
| of that communication for purposes of providing any service other | ||
| than storage or computer processing. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter K, Chapter 18B, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 18B.5025 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Art. 18B.5025. DISCLOSURE IN IMMEDIATE LIFE-THREATENING | ||
| SITUATION. A provider of an electronic communications service or a | ||
| provider of a remote computing service may disclose electronic | ||
| customer data to a governmental entity if the provider in good faith | ||
| believes an immediate life-threatening situation exists that | ||
| requires the immediate disclosure of the electronic customer data | ||
| to assist in preventing any death or serious bodily injury that may | ||
| result from the immediate life-threatening situation. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a | ||
| disclosure of electronic customer data by a provider of an | ||
| electronic communications service or a remote computing service | ||
| made on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
