81R10815 CAS-F
By: Patrick H.B. No. 2491
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to disclosure of certain personal information of
applicants for employment with and current and former employees of
public school entities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 22.010 to read as follows:
Sec. 22.010. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. (a) This
section applies to information in the custody of a school district,
open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement
that concerns an applicant for employment with or a person
currently or formerly employed by the district, school, or shared
services arrangement, including a substitute teacher or student
teacher, and that:
(1) relates to the applicant's or employee's:
(A) home address;
(B) home telephone number;
(C) personal cellular phone number;
(D) date of birth;
(E) criminal history record information;
(F) driver's license number;
(G) personal electronic mail address; or
(H) social security number; or
(2) reveals whether the applicant or employee has
family members.
(b) Information described by Subsection (a):
(1) is not considered public information under Chapter
552, Government Code; and
(2) may be made accessible to the public by a school
district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services
arrangement only if the applicant or employee to whom the
information applies:
(A) provides written notice to the district,
school, or shared services arrangement of the applicant's or
employee's election to authorize public access to the information;
and
(B) does not provide written rescission of the
authorization.
(c) This section does not apply to information filed with a
county or district clerk.
(d) This section does not prohibit the State Board for
Educator Certification, the agency, the Department of Public
Safety, or another entity authorized under Subchapter C from
conducting a criminal history record information review in
accordance with that subchapter.
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, 2009.