Bill Text: TX HB2413 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county to dispose of sensitive media devices.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-15 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2413 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2413-Comm_Sub.html
| 89R4554 DRS-D | ||
| By: Garcia Hernandez, et al. | H.B. No. 2413 | |
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| relating to the authority of a county to dispose of sensitive media | ||
| devices. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 263, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 263.1521 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 263.1521. DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN SENSITIVE MEDIA | ||
| DEVICES. (a) In this section, "sensitive media device" means a | ||
| data storage device that the commissioners court of a county | ||
| determines the county has used to store data the maintenance or | ||
| disclosure of which is regulated by state or federal law. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Section 263.152, the commissioners | ||
| court of a county may order the destruction of a sensitive media | ||
| device: | ||
| (1) that is salvage or surplus property; and | ||
| (2) for which the commissioners court determines that | ||
| the destruction of the sensitive media device is necessary to | ||
| prevent inadvertent disclosure of information in connection with | ||
| the disposal of the device. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
