By Hochberg H.B. No. 388 75R3270 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the confidentiality of preliminary findings of on-site 1-3 investigations conducted by the Texas Education Agency. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.076, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) Preliminary findings and any associated documents are 1-8 confidential until the agency issues a report with its final 1-9 findings, except the agency may immediately notify an appropriate 1-10 law enforcement agency if information obtained by the agency 1-11 indicates that an offense may have been committed. Information 1-12 disclosed to a law enforcement agency remains confidential until 1-13 the agency issues a report with final findings, and the law 1-14 enforcement agency may not disclose the information until that time 1-15 except as necessary to further the law enforcement agency's 1-16 investigation or to prosecute a criminal violation. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.