By: Johnson  S.B. No. 2323
         (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2025; March 25, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
  April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 14, 2025,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2323 By:  Johnson
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the disclosure of certain information regarding a
  record of a collision or violation involving a person operating a
  railroad locomotive or train.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 192.005, Transportation Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 192.005.  RECORD OF COLLISION OR VIOLATION. If a person
  operating a railroad locomotive or train is involved in a collision
  with another train, [or] a motor vehicle, or a pedestrian or is
  arrested for violation of a law relating to the person's operation
  of a railroad locomotive or train:
               (1)  the number of or other identifying information on
  the person's driver's license or commercial driver's license may not
  be included in any report of the collision or violation; and
               (2)  the person's involvement in the collision or
  violation may not be recorded in the person's individual driving
  record maintained by the Department of Public Safety.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 192, Transportation Code, is amended by
  adding Section 192.006 to read as follows:
         Sec. 192.006.  DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION FROM RECORD
  OF COLLISION OR VIOLATION. The personally identifying information
  of a railroad locomotive or train crew shall be redacted from a
  report of a collision or violation described by Section 192.005(1)
  and may not be disclosed except:
               (1)  to a law enforcement officer or agent;
               (2)  to a state attorney;
               (3)  to the railroad company;
                     (A)  on whose tracks the collision or violation
  occurred; or
                     (B)  who employed the crew at the time of the
  collision or violation; 
               (4)  to a regulatory agency with oversight of
  railroads;
               (5)  to a person specifically authorized by court order
  to receive the information, if access to the information is
  necessary to the performance of the person's duties; or
               (6)  to legal counsel representing a party injured in a
  collision or as a result of a violation that is the subject of the
  report, on receipt of a letter requesting that information.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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