By: Wentworth  S.B. No. 1068
         (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2009; March 13, 2009,
  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  April 27, 2009, reported favorably, by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
  Nays 0; April 27, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to allowing a governmental body to redact certain personal
  information under the public information law without the necessity
  of requesting a decision from the attorney general.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 552.024, Government
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  If the employee or official or former employee or
  official chooses not to allow public access to the information:
               (1)  [,] the information is protected under Subchapter
  C; and
               (2)  the governmental body may redact the information
  from any information the governmental body discloses under Section
  552.021 without the necessity of requesting a decision from the
  attorney general under Subchapter G.
         SECTION 2.  Section 552.1175, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
         (f)  A governmental body may redact information that must be
  withheld under Subsection (b) from any information the governmental
  body discloses under Section 552.021 without the necessity of
  requesting a decision from the attorney general under Subchapter G.
         SECTION 3.  Section 552.138, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  A governmental body may redact information maintained
  by a family violence shelter center or sexual assault program that
  may be withheld under Subsection (b)(1) or (6) from any information
  the governmental body discloses under Section 552.021 without the
  necessity of requesting a decision from the attorney general under
  Subchapter G.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2009.
 
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