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
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| By: Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 293 | |
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| 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. | ||
