Bill Text: TX SB46 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the availability of dates of birth under the public information law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB46 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB46-Introduced.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 46 | |
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relating to the availability of dates of birth under the public | ||
information law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 552.0223 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 552.0223. DATES OF BIRTH. Notwithstanding Section | ||
552.101, this chapter does not authorize a governmental body to | ||
withhold a person's date of birth: | ||
(1) in correctional or prosecutorial records, | ||
including arrest, charge, indictment, conviction and deferred | ||
adjudication, and inmate information; or | ||
(2) in applications filed by candidates for elective | ||
office pursuant to Section 141.031 and Chapters 143 and 144, Texas | ||
Elections Code. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a request for information that is received by a governmental body or | ||
an officer for public information on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. A request for information that was received before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the request was received, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
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. 2023 |