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By:  Wentworth                                                            S.B. No. 85



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to excepting military discharge records from required 
public disclosure and limiting the persons to whom the information 
may be disclosed.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 552.140 to read as follows:
	Sec. 552.140.  MILITARY DISCHARGE RECORDS.  (a)  A military 
veteran's Department of Defense Form DD-214 or other military 
discharge record that has been recorded with or that is otherwise in 
the possession of a governmental body is excepted from required 
public disclosure.
	(b)  A governmental body may release the form or other 
military discharge record only:
		(1)  to the veteran who is the subject of the form or 
record; or     
		(2)  if the veteran is deceased, to a survivor of the 
veteran who may be eligible to claim any type of benefit by virtue 
of the veteran's service in the military.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.