By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1846
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the exception from required disclosure under the public
 1-2     information law of certain information related to peace officers
 1-3     killed in the line of duty.
 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                 (2)  a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
1-16     of Criminal Procedure, or a security officer commissioned under
1-17     Section 51.212, Education Code, regardless of whether the officer
1-18     complies with Section 552.024; [or]
1-19                 (3)  an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal
1-20     Justice, regardless of whether the employee complies with Section
1-21     552.024; or
1-22                 (4)  a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
1-23     of Criminal Procedure, or other law, a reserve law enforcement
1-24     officer, a commissioned deputy game warden, or a corrections
 2-1     officer in a municipal, county, or state penal institution in this
 2-2     state who was killed in the line of duty, regardless of whether the
 2-3     deceased complied with Section 552.024.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
 2-5     552.117, Government Code, applies to information, records, and
 2-6     notations collected, made, assembled, or maintained on, before, or
 2-7     after the effective date of this Act.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14     passage, and it is so enacted.