1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1846
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 6, 1999; April 7, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 16, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the exception from required disclosure under the public
1-9 information law of certain information related to peace officers
1-10 killed in the line of duty.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 552.117, Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 552.117. EXCEPTION: CERTAIN ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE
1-15 NUMBERS, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, AND PERSONAL FAMILY INFORMATION.
1-16 Information is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 if
1-17 it is information that relates to the home address, home telephone
1-18 number, or social security number, or that reveals whether the
1-19 following person has family members:
1-20 (1) a current or former official or employee of a
1-21 governmental body, except as otherwise provided by Section 552.024;
1-22 (2) a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
1-23 of Criminal Procedure, or a security officer commissioned under
1-24 Section 51.212, Education Code, regardless of whether the officer
1-25 complies with Section 552.024; [or]
1-26 (3) an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal
1-27 Justice, regardless of whether the employee complies with Section
1-28 552.024; or
1-29 (4) a peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code
1-30 of Criminal Procedure, or other law, a reserve law enforcement
1-31 officer, a commissioned deputy game warden, or a corrections
1-32 officer in a municipal, county, or state penal institution in this
1-33 state who was killed in the line of duty, regardless of whether the
1-34 deceased complied with Section 552.024.
1-35 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-36 552.117, Government Code, applies to information, records, and
1-37 notations collected, made, assembled, or maintained on, before, or
1-38 after the effective date of this Act.
1-39 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-44 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-45 passage, and it is so enacted.
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