Bill Text: TX HB1403 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB1403 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1403-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1403 | ||
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| relating to the collection and confidentiality of information | ||
| regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil | ||
| penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsections (e-6), (e-7), (e-8), and (e-9) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (e-6) The commission, the department, and a child-placing | ||
| agency that contracts with the department may not require an agency | ||
| foster home to: | ||
| (1) disclose the specific types of firearms that are | ||
| present in the home; or | ||
| (2) notify the child-placing agency if there is any | ||
| change in the types of firearms that are present in the home. | ||
| (e-7) If the commission, the department, or a child-placing | ||
| agency that contracts with the department has or obtains | ||
| information relating to the types of firearms that are present in an | ||
| agency foster home, the commission, department, or child-placing | ||
| agency may not use that information for any purpose other than | ||
| determining whether there are firearms present in the home. | ||
| (e-8) A child-placing agency that violates Subsection (e-7) | ||
| is liable to the state for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed | ||
| $5,000 for each violation. The attorney general may bring an action | ||
| to recover a civil penalty authorized under this subsection. | ||
| (e-9) Information relating to the types of firearms that are | ||
| present in an agency foster home is confidential and is not subject | ||
| to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1403 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 13, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 36, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1403 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 22, Nays 9. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
