By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 2214
74R5260 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public access to certain personal information about a
1-3 public school volunteer or a member of a public school
1-4 organization.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 552.0241 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 552.0241. ELECTING TO DISCLOSE ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE
1-9 NUMBER; SCHOOL VOLUNTEER OR MEMBER OF SCHOOL ORGANIZATION. (a)
1-10 Each person who has performed volunteer services for a public
1-11 school or public school district or who is or has been a member of
1-12 or has attended meetings of an organization that is affiliated with
1-13 a public school or a public school district is entitled at any time
1-14 to choose whether to allow public access to any information in the
1-15 custody of the public school or public school district relating to
1-16 the person's home address and home telephone number. A person shall
1-17 exercise the person's choice by delivering a signed writing that
1-18 states the person's choice to an appropriate employee or official
1-19 of the public school or public school district.
1-20 (b) If the person chooses not to allow public access to the
1-21 information, the information is protected under Subchapter C.
1-22 (c) If a person fails to choose under Subsection (a), or if
1-23 a person who chose under Subsection (a) not to allow access to the
1-24 information subsequently delivers a signed writing to an
2-1 appropriate employee or official of the public school or public
2-2 school district stating that the public school or public school
2-3 district may allow access to the information, the information is
2-4 subject to public access.
2-5 (d) This section does not affect any duty of an organization
2-6 to report or disclose information under the Texas Non-Profit
2-7 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
2-8 Statutes).
2-9 SECTION 2. The section heading to Section 552.024,
2-10 Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-11 Sec. 552.024. ELECTING TO DISCLOSE ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE
2-12 NUMBER; PUBLIC EMPLOYEE OR OFFICIAL.
2-13 SECTION 3. Section 552.117, Government Code, is amended to
2-14 read as follows:
2-15 Sec. 552.117. EXCEPTION: CERTAIN ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE
2-16 NUMBERS, AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. Information is excepted from
2-17 the requirements of Section 552.021 if it is information relating
2-18 to:
2-19 (1) the home address or home telephone number of:
2-20 (A) a current or former official or employee of
2-21 a governmental body, except as otherwise provided by Section
2-22 552.024; <or>
2-23 (B) a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12,
2-24 Code of Criminal Procedure, or a security officer commissioned
2-25 under Section 51.212, Education Code; or
2-26 (C) a person who has performed volunteer
2-27 services for a public school or public school district or who is or
3-1 has been a member of or has attended meetings of an organization
3-2 that is affiliated with a public school or a public school
3-3 district, except as otherwise provided by Section 552.0241; or
3-4 (2) the home address, home telephone number, or social
3-5 security number of an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal
3-6 Justice, or the home or employment address or telephone number,
3-7 name, or social security number of a family member of the employee.
3-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-14 passage, and it is so enacted.