1-1  By:  Patterson                                          S.B. No. 72
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed November 21, 1994; January 11, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  February 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  8, Nays 0; February 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the release of information kept in vessel and outboard
    1-9  motor ownership records.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Parks and Wildlife
   1-12  Code, is amended by adding Section 31.0391 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 31.0391.  RELEASE OF INFORMATION.  (a)  The department
   1-14  or a county may not release the name or address of a person
   1-15  recorded in the department vessel and outboard motor ownership
   1-16  records unless the department or county receives a written request
   1-17  that:
   1-18              (1)  contains the requestor's name and address; and
   1-19              (2)  states that the use of the information is for a
   1-20  lawful purpose.
   1-21        (b)  This section does not apply to the release of
   1-22  information to:
   1-23              (1)  a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
   1-24  of Criminal Procedure, who is acting in an official capacity; or
   1-25              (2)  a state official or an official of a political
   1-26  subdivision of this state who requests the information for tax
   1-27  purposes.
   1-28        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-29        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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