84R12156 YDB-D
 
  By: Davis of Dallas H.B. No. 3248
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to state agency procedures and policies to protect and
  properly destroy certain information that identifies an
  individual.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 10, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Chapter 2064 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 2064.  INDIVIDUAL-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
         Sec. 2064.001.  DEFINITION. In this chapter, "state agency"
  means a department, commission, board, office, council, authority,
  or other agency in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch
  of state government, including a university system or institution
  of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code,
  that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state.
         Sec. 2064.002.  SECURITY FOR INDIVIDUAL-IDENTIFYING
  INFORMATION.  Each state agency shall develop policies and
  procedures to properly secure all information, including
  electronic information and any electronic backup of that
  information, that alone or in conjunction with other information
  identifies an individual.  The agency shall implement electronic
  security strategies developed by the Department of Information
  Resources under Chapter 2054 as appropriate.
         Sec. 2064.003.  SECURE DESTRUCTION OF INFORMATION. A state
  agency shall destroy or arrange for the destruction of information
  that alone or in conjunction with other information identifies an
  individual and that is not required to be retained under other law
  in a manner that properly protects the information from disclosure,
  including by:
               (1)  shredding;
               (2)  erasing; or
               (3)  otherwise modifying the sensitive information in
  the records to make the information unreadable or indecipherable
  through any means.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.