Bill Text: TX HB3967 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to accompanying and filming peace officers of the state and local law enforcement agencies for producing a documentary film.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3967 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3967-Introduced.html
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By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 3967 |
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relating to accompanying and filming peace officers of the state | ||
and local law enforcement agencies for producing a documentary | ||
film. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 614.231, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 614.231. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Documentary film" means a theatrically released | ||
nonfiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural, | ||
artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic, or other | ||
subjects that may have been photographed in actual occurrence, or | ||
may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, | ||
stop-motion, or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact | ||
and not fiction, including a series of films that may be released in | ||
several parts or episodes. | ||
(2) "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of this | ||
state or a political subdivision of this state that employs peace | ||
officers other than game wardens. | ||
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nonfictional television program that features the same live | ||
subjects over the course of more than one episode primarily for | ||
entertainment purposes, but does not include a documentary film or | ||
reporting on a matter of public concern by a journalist as defined | ||
by Article 38.11, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |