Bill Text: TX HB4952 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of fraud detection and deterrence information under the public information law.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-05-05 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB4952 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB4952-Comm_Sub.html

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89R3541 MCK-D
By: Landgraf H.B. No. 4952

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the confidentiality of fraud detection and deterrence
information under the public information law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 552.164 to read as follows:
Sec. 552.164. EXCEPTION: CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION
REGARDING FRAUD DETECTION AND DETERRENCE MEASURES. Information in
the custody of a governmental body that relates to fraud detection
and deterrence measures is confidential and excepted from the
requirements of Section 552.021. For purposes of this section,
fraud detection information includes risk assessments, reports,
data, protocols, technology specifications, manuals, instructions,
investigative materials, crossmatches, mental impressions, and
communications that may reveal the methods or means by which a
governmental body prevents, investigates, or evaluates fraud.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.