Bill Text: TX HB4272 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the disclosure of certain documentation and records concerning victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4272 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4272-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the disclosure of certain documentation and records concerning victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4272 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4272-Introduced.html
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By: Leach | H.B. No. 4272 |
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relating to the disclosure of certain documentation and records | ||
concerning victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 56A.252, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) For purposes of this subsection, "intimate parts" and | ||
"visual material" have the meanings assigned by Section 21.16, | ||
Penal Code. In providing documentation in support of additional | ||
reimbursement under Subsection (c)(1)(B), a health care provider or | ||
sexual assault examiner may redact any personally identifiable | ||
information of a sexual assault survivor and withhold any visual | ||
material depicting a sexual assault survivor with the survivor's | ||
intimate parts exposed or otherwise depicting the survivor in an | ||
intimate state. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 420.072, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) For purposes of this subsection, "intimate parts" and | ||
"visual material" have the meanings assigned by Section 21.16, | ||
Penal Code. In disclosing a communication or record for purposes of | ||
an audit, an evaluation, or research under Subsection (a)(5)(B), an | ||
advocate or sexual assault program may redact any personally | ||
identifiable information of a survivor and withhold any visual | ||
material depicting a survivor with the survivor's intimate parts | ||
exposed or otherwise depicting the survivor in an intimate state. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |