Bill Text: TX SB672 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 672 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on the sale by a state agency of information that identifies an individual.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-24 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB672 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB672-Introduced.html

	84R9612 YDB-D

	By: Kolkhorst	S.B. No. 672



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to restrictions on the sale by a state agency of
	information that identifies an individual.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 10, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Chapter 2060 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 2060. RESTRICTIONS ON SALE BY STATE AGENCY OF CERTAIN
	INDIVIDUAL-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
	Sec. 2060.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "state agency"
	means a department, commission, board, office, council, authority,
	or other agency in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch
	of state government, including a university system or institution
	of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code,
	that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state.
	Sec. 2060.002. CONSENT REQUIRED BEFORE SALE; RECORDS. (a)
	Before a state agency may sell to a person information that alone or
	in conjunction with other information identifies an individual, the
	state agency must obtain the written consent of the individual.
	(b) A state agency shall retain the consent of an individual
	in the agency's records until the sales contract or agreement under
	which the information is sold expires.
	Sec. 2060.003. PROHIBITED SALES. A state agency may not:
	(1) sell to a person any information that alone or in
	conjunction with other information identifies an individual unless
	the person agrees in writing not to resell the information;
	(2) sell to a person who wishes to remain anonymous any
	information that alone or in conjunction with other information
	identifies an individual; or
	(3) sell to a person any information that alone or in
	conjunction with other information identifies an individual unless
	the individual has provided written consent to the agency.
	SECTION 2. Chapter 2060, Government Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to information sold by a state agency to another
	person on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.