Bill Text: TX HB611 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of unlawful disclosure of residence address or telephone number.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB611-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 611 | ||
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| relating to the creation of the criminal offense of unlawful | ||
| disclosure of residence address or telephone number. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 42.074 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.074. UNLAWFUL DISCLOSURE OF RESIDENCE ADDRESS OR | ||
| TELEPHONE NUMBER. (a) A person commits an offense if the person | ||
| posts on a publicly accessible website the residence address or | ||
| telephone number of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a | ||
| threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's | ||
| family or household. | ||
| (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor, | ||
| except that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if the offense | ||
| results in the bodily injury of: | ||
| (1) the individual whose residence address or | ||
| telephone number was posted on a publicly accessible website; or | ||
| (2) a member of the individual's family or household. | ||
| (c) This section does not apply to a public servant who | ||
| posted information described by Subsection (a) to a publicly | ||
| accessible website in the performance of the public servant's | ||
| duties as required by or in accordance with state or federal law. | ||
| (d) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this | ||
| section also constitutes an offense under Section 36.06(a-1), the | ||
| actor may be prosecuted under either section but not both. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 611 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 611 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
