Bill Text: TX SB563 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the efficiency of the operations of, and certain information regarding services provided by, the Texas Workforce Commission; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB563 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB563-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the efficiency of the operations of, and certain information regarding services provided by, the Texas Workforce Commission; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB563 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB563-Engrossed.html
By: Jackson | S.B. No. 563 |
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relating to information regarding job matching services provided by | ||
the Texas Workforce Commission; providing a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 301.085, Labor Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 301.085. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION AND JOB MATCHING | ||
SERVICES INFORMATION; OFFENSE; PENALTY. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 301.085, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (c), and (d) and adding Subsection (b-1) | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Job matching services information" means | ||
information in the records of the commission that pertains to the | ||
commission's job matching services provided to employers and job | ||
seekers through the Internet, workforce centers, or other means. | ||
(2) "Unemployment[ |
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information" means information in the records of the commission | ||
that pertains to the administration of Subtitle A, including any | ||
information collected, received, developed, or maintained in the | ||
administration of unemployment compensation benefits or the | ||
unemployment compensation tax system. | ||
(b-1) The commission shall adopt and enforce reasonable | ||
rules governing the confidentiality, custody, use, preservation, | ||
and disclosure of job matching services information. The rules | ||
must include safeguards to protect the confidentiality of | ||
identifying information regarding any individual or any past or | ||
present employer or employing unit contained in job matching | ||
services information, including any information that foreseeably | ||
could be combined with other publicly available information to | ||
reveal identifying information regarding the individual, employer, | ||
or employing unit, as applicable. | ||
(c) Unemployment compensation information and job matching | ||
services information are [ |
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of Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
(d) Unless permitted by this subchapter or commission rule, | ||
a person commits an offense if the person solicits, discloses, | ||
receives, or uses, or authorizes, permits, participates in, or | ||
acquiesces in another person's use of, unemployment compensation | ||
information or job matching services information that reveals: | ||
(1) identifying information regarding any individual | ||
or past or present employer or employing unit; or | ||
(2) information that foreseeably could be combined | ||
with other publicly available information to reveal identifying | ||
information regarding any individual or past or present employer or | ||
employing unit. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |