By: Brown S.B. No. 1846
99S1051/1
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.