By Uresti H.B. No. 1578 76R4003 JRD-D 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.