By: Bonnen of Galveston H.B. No. 2050
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the confidentiality of certain licensing and employment
records submitted to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement or
maintained by a law enforcement agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. S
ection 1701.454(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) All information submitted to the commission under this
subchapter, including a copy of that information retained by the
submitting law enforcement agency, is confidential and is not
subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code, unless
the person resigned or was terminated due to substantiated
incidents of excessive force or violations of the law other than
traffic offenses.
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, 2017.