By Uresti                                             H.B. No. 1578
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to access to a public employee's electronic mail address
 1-3     under the open records law.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 552.024(a), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Each employee or official of a governmental body and
 1-8     each former employee or official of a governmental body shall
 1-9     choose whether to allow public access to the information in the
1-10     custody of the governmental body that relates to the person's home
1-11     address, home telephone number, home electronic mail address, or
1-12     social security number, or that reveals whether the person has
1-13     family members.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 552.117, Government Code, is amended to
1-15     read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 552.117.  EXCEPTION:  CERTAIN ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE
1-17     NUMBERS, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, AND PERSONAL FAMILY INFORMATION.
1-18     Information is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 if
1-19     it is information that relates to the home address, home telephone
1-20     number, work or home electronic mail address, or social security
1-21     number of the following person, or that reveals whether the
1-22     following person has family members:
1-23                 (1)  a current or former official or employee of a
1-24     governmental body, except as otherwise provided by Section 552.024;
 2-1                 (2)  a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
 2-2     of Criminal Procedure, or a security officer commissioned under
 2-3     Section 51.212, Education Code, regardless of whether the officer
 2-4     complies with Section 552.024; or
 2-5                 (3)  an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal
 2-6     Justice, regardless of whether the employee complies with Section
 2-7     552.024.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.  The
 2-9     change in law made by this Act applies only to a request for
2-10     information under Chapter 552, Government Code, that is made on or
2-11     after that date.
2-12           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.