1-1     By:  Junek (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                   H.B. No. 692
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 22, 1999;
 1-3     March 23, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the confidentiality of the social security number of an
 1-9     applicant for or holder of a license or other form of permission to
1-10     practice an occupation or profession.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  CONFIDENTIALITY OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.  The
1-13     social security number of an applicant for or holder of a license,
1-14     certificate of registration, or other legal authorization issued by
1-15     a licensing agency to practice in a specific occupation or
1-16     profession that is provided to the licensing agency is confidential
1-17     and is not subject to disclosure under the open records law.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.
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