By Cuellar of Hidalgo H.B. No. 1770 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the release of information kept in vessel and boat 1-3 records. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B-1, Chapter 31, Parks and Wildlife 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 31.056 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 31.056. RELEASE OF INFORMATION. (a) The department or 1-8 a county may not release to any person the name and address of any 1-9 person contained in the vessel and outboard motor records in 1-10 response to a telephone inquiry. The department or a county may 1-11 release the name and address only if the request is in writing. 1-12 The written request must contain the requestor's name and address 1-13 and must state that the use of the information is for a lawful and 1-14 legitimate purpose. 1-15 (b) This section does not apply to the release of 1-16 information to: 1-17 (1) a peace officer, as that term is defined in 1-18 Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, if the officer is acting 1-19 in an official capacity; or 1-20 (2) an official of the state, a city, a town, a 1-21 county, a special district, or another political subdivision of the 1-22 state if the official is requesting the information for tax 1-23 purposes. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.