Amend HB 1922 by striking SECTION 2 of the bill and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 2.  (a)  The lieutenant governor and the speaker of
the house of representatives shall establish a joint interim task
force to study issues identified by this section that affect
personal privacy.
      (b)  The lieutenant governor shall appoint five senators and
the speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint five
members of the house of representatives to the task force.
      (c)  The task force shall elect a presiding officer and an
assistant presiding officer from among its members.
      (d)  The task force shall meet at the times and places within
the state that the task force designates.  The task force shall
develop and implement policies that provide the public with a
reasonable opportunity to appear before the task force and to speak
on any issue being studied by the task force.
      (e)  A legislative entity shall assist the task force at the
request of the lieutenant governor or the speaker of the house of
representatives, and a state agency in the executive branch of
state government shall assist the task force at the request of the
task force.
      (f)  Chapter 2110, Government Code, does not apply to the
size or composition of the task force or of the advisory committee
created to advise the task force.
      (g)  The task force shall appoint an advisory committee to
assist it in performing its duties.  The advisory committee
consists of the number of members that the task force considers
advisable.  The task force shall appoint an approximately equal
number of members from the public and private sectors.
Public-sector appointments must include representatives from state
agencies such as the office of the comptroller of public accounts,
the office of the governor, the office of the attorney general, the
office of the state auditor, the Texas Department of Insurance, the
Department of Information Resources, the Texas Department of
Banking, and the Health and Human Services Commission; at least one
representative from a municipal government; and at least one
representative from a county government.  Private-sector
appointments must include individuals involved in fields such as
banking, marketing, the news media, medicine, consumer affairs, and
information technology.  The advisory committee must include
members who understand the implications that advances in
information technology have for personal privacy.
      (h)  The task force shall identify and analyze existing and
proposed privacy statutes and rules of this state, other states,
and the federal government.  In performing an analysis under this
subsection, the task force shall address the extent to which the
existing or proposed privacy statutes and rules:
            (1)  benefit individuals;
            (2)  impose financial, efficiency, or lost opportunity
costs on governmental entities or private businesses; and
            (3)  benefit commerce or benefit governmental
effectiveness or efficiency by creating an environment in which
individuals are more likely to willingly divulge information about
themselves.
      (i)  The task force shall identify and analyze other existing
and proposed statutes and rules of this state, other states, and
the federal government with respect to the manner in which the
statutes and rules affect individual privacy.  In performing an
analysis under this subsection, the task force shall address the
extent to which existing or proposed statutes and rules that affect
individual privacy:
            (1)  impose burdens on individuals, adversely affect
individuals' lives, or contravene commonly held expectations of
individual privacy;
            (2)  benefit governmental entities or private
businesses with respect to increased revenues or financial gain,
increased efficiency, or increased opportunities; and
            (3)  affect commerce or affect governmental
effectiveness or efficiency by creating an environment in which
individuals become less likely to willingly divulge information
about themselves.
      (j)  The office of the attorney general shall coordinate with
and assist the task force in performing legal analyses under
Subsections (h) and (i).
      (k)  The task force shall conduct a study regarding the
advantages, disadvantages, and feasibility of requiring by law in
various circumstances that certain personal information may be
released by a governmental entity or a private business only with
the prior informed consent of the individual.  In this subsection,
"personal information" means information about an individual such
as:
            (1)  the individual's address, telephone number, social
security number, date of birth, and physical characteristics and
similar information about the individual;
            (2)  information about an individual's marital status
or history, whether the individual has family members, and
information about the individual's family members; and
            (3)  personally identifiable information about the
individual's health or health history, finances or financial
history, and consumer history.
      (l)  The task force shall report the results of its study and
its recommendations to the lieutenant governor and the speaker of
the house of representatives by not later than November 1, 2002.
The task force shall include in its report its conclusions
regarding the advisability of enacting legislation with respect to
each of the topics that the task force studied.
      (m)  The task force and advisory committee are abolished and
this section expires September 1, 2003.