By: Ogden S.B. No. 1544
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to public access to certain personal information about
1-2 employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and certain
1-3 law enforcement personnel.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 552.117, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 552.117. EXCEPTION: CERTAIN ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE
1-8 NUMBERS, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, AND PERSONAL FAMILY INFORMATION.
1-9 Information is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 if
1-10 it is information that relates to the home address, home telephone
1-11 number, or social security number, or that reveals whether the
1-12 following person has family members:
1-13 (1) a current or former official or employee of a
1-14 governmental body, except as otherwise provided by Section 552.024;
1-15 [or]
1-16 (2) a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
1-17 of Criminal Procedure, or a security officer commissioned under
1-18 Section 51.212, Education Code, regardless of whether the officer
1-19 complies with Section 552.024; or
1-20 (3) an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal
1-21 Justice, regardless of whether the employee complies with Section
1-22 552.024.
1-23 SECTION 2. A prior action of a governmental body that would
2-1 have been valid under Section 552.117, Government Code, as amended
2-2 by this Act, is validated as of the date the action occurred
2-3 unless:
2-4 (1) as part of the final result of litigation that
2-5 concluded before the effective date of this Act the action of the
2-6 governmental body was declared invalid; or
2-7 (2) the action of the governmental body is involved in
2-8 litigation on the effective date of this Act and as part of the
2-9 final result of the litigation the action of the governmental body
2-10 is declared invalid.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.