Bill Text: TX HB293 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the release and use of certain information maintained by the State Bar of Texas on request of certain continuing legal education sponsors regarding attorneys.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-04 - Left pending in committee [HB293 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB293-Introduced.html
  83R2287 CAE-F
 
  By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 293
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the release and use of certain information maintained
  by the State Bar of Texas on request of certain continuing legal
  education sponsors regarding attorneys.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 552.1176, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
         (d)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the State Bar of Texas
  shall provide the names, bar card numbers, and e-mail addresses of
  persons licensed to practice law in this state to an accredited
  sponsor of a continuing legal education course who is approved by
  the minimum continuing legal education committee of the state bar
  and who is affiliated with a state agency, including a public law
  school, on the request of the accredited sponsor. A request by an
  accredited sponsor under this subsection must be in writing or
  electronically transmitted. An accredited sponsor who receives the
  e-mail address of a person licensed to practice law may only use the
  e-mail address to provide notification of accredited continuing
  legal education activities. The state bar may charge the
  accredited sponsor with the actual costs incurred in providing the
  e-mail addresses by electronic means.
         (e)  For purposes of this chapter, an attorney's e-mail
  address maintained by the State Bar of Texas for the supreme court
  as part of the attorney membership record is not an e-mail address
  of a member of the public that is provided for the purpose of
  communicating electronically with a governmental body.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a request to the State
  Bar of Texas under Section 552.1176(d), Government Code, as added
  by this Act, that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
  A request to the state bar under that section that occurs before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect
  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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