87S30052 YDB-D
 
  By: Krause H.B. No. 66
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requirements for the use on this state's international
  border of security cameras and for camera data storage from those
  cameras.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 411.00951 to read as follows:
         Sec. 411.00951.  REQUIREMENTS FOR BORDER SECURITY CAMERAS
  AND DATA STORAGE. In any program the department establishes to
  monitor this state's international border, the department may only:
               (1)  use security cameras manufactured in the United
  States by a company whose headquarters are located in the United
  States; and
               (2)  store data retrieved from the security cameras
  described by Subdivision (1) on data storage devices located in the
  United States and operated by a company whose headquarters are
  located in the United States.
         SECTION 2.  Section 411.00951, Government Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only to a contract for the purchase of security
  cameras or the storage of data from security cameras entered into on
  or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect February 1, 2022.