Bill Text: TX SB2192 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of the recording of certain emergency calls.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB2192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2192-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 2192 | |
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| relating to the confidentiality of the recording of certain | ||
| emergency calls. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 552.157 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.157. EXCEPTION: CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDING OF | ||
| CERTAIN EMERGENCY CALLS. (a) A recording of an emergency call made | ||
| to a public safety agency or a public safety answering point, as | ||
| those terms are defined by Section 772.001, Health and Safety Code, | ||
| that contains the final words spoken by an individual is | ||
| confidential. | ||
| (b) A governmental body shall disclose information that is | ||
| confidential under this section and that is not confidential or | ||
| otherwise excepted from required disclosure under another | ||
| provision of law to a requestor who: | ||
| (1) is an investigator licensed under Chapter 1702, | ||
| Occupations Code, who certifies that the information will only be | ||
| used in conjunction with a civil, criminal, administrative, or | ||
| arbitral proceeding in a court or government agency, including | ||
| service of process, investigation in anticipation of litigation, | ||
| execution or enforcement of a judgment or order, or under any order | ||
| of any court; or | ||
| (2) is a first responder as defined by Section | ||
| 421.095. | ||
| (c) A governmental body may withhold a recording described | ||
| by Subsection (a) without the necessity of requesting a decision | ||
| from the attorney general under Subchapter G. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
