Bill Text: TX HB30 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 30 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to access to certain law enforcement, corrections, and prosecutorial records under the public information law.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB30 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB30-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 30




	AN ACT
	relating to access to certain law enforcement, corrections, and
	prosecutorial records under the public information law.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 552.108, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d) The exception to disclosure provided by Subsection
	(a)(2) 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 change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a request for public information received by a governmental body
	or an officer for public information on or after the effective date
	of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 30 was passed by the House on May 5,
	2023, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 24, 2 present, not
	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
	H.B. No. 30 on May 23, 2023, and requested the appointment of a
	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
	on H.B. No. 30 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 125,
	Nays 15, 2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 30 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
	30 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor