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Senate Bill 1619 |
Senate Author: Lucio |
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Effective: 9-1-07 |
House Sponsor: Morrison |
Senate Bill 1619 amends the Labor Code to require the Texas Workforce Commission to adopt and enforce reasonable rules governing the confidentiality, custody, use, preservation, and disclosure of information collected, received, developed, or maintained in the administration of unemployment compensation benefits or the unemployment compensation tax system. The bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor to use the information in an unauthorized way that reveals identifying information, or information that forseeably could be combined with other publicly available information to reveal identifying information, regarding any individual or past or present employer or employing unit. The bill also makes an offense relating to employee records of an employing unit a Class A misdemeanor rather than an offense punishable by a certain fine, jail term, or both.