Bill Text: TX HB2961 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2961

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to access under the public information law to certain information held by a law enforcement agency or prosecutor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Filed [HB2961 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2961-Introduced.html

	89R12032 MCK-F

	By: Moody	H.B. No. 2961



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to access under the public information law to certain
	information held by a law enforcement agency or prosecutor.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 552.108(d), Government Code, as added by
	Chapter 986 (H.B. 30), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
	Session, 2023, is redesignated as Section 552.108(c-1), Government
	Code, and amended to read as follows:
	(c-1) [~~(d)~~] The exceptions [~~exception~~] to disclosure
	provided by Subsections [~~Subsection~~] (a)(2) and (b)(2) do [~~does~~]
	not apply to information, records, or notations if:
	(1) a person who is described by or depicted in the
	information, record, or notation, other than a peace officer, is
	deceased or incapacitated; or
	(2) each person who is described by or depicted in the
	information, record, or notation, other than a person who is
	deceased or incapacitated, consents to the release of the
	information, record, or notation.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
	552.108, Government Code, apply only to a request for information
	that is received by a governmental body or an officer or employee of
	a governmental body on or after the effective date of this Act. A
	request for information that was received before the effective date
	of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the request
	was received, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 3. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
	over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
	relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
	codes.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.