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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