Bill Text: TX HB3688 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of the identity of certain landowners who participate in a State Soil and Water Conservation Board program to manage or eradicate an invasive species.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-03 - Received from the House [HB3688 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3688-Engrossed.html
By: Anderson, Guillen, Morales of Maverick, | H.B. No. 3688 | |
Lozano, González of El Paso, et al. |
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relating to the confidentiality of the identity of certain | ||
landowners who participate in a State Soil and Water Conservation | ||
Board program to manage or eradicate an invasive species. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 201, Agriculture Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 201.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 201.007. CONFIDENTIALITY OF PARTICIPANTS IN INVASIVE | ||
SPECIES ERADICATION PROGRAMS. (a) Except as provided by | ||
Subsection (b), information written, produced, collected, | ||
assembled, or maintained by the state board that would identify a | ||
landowner who participates in a state board program to manage or | ||
eradicate an invasive species is confidential and not subject to | ||
disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to the disclosure of the | ||
identity of a person who receives a direct payment of state money | ||
under a contract with the state board to manage or eradicate an | ||
invasive species. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |