| 1 | | - | H.B. No. 3175 |
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| 1 | + | By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 3175 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019; |
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| 3 | + | April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | + | Business & Commerce; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the |
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| 5 | + | following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 4 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 11 | | relating to the confidentiality of certain personal information of |
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| 6 | 12 | | an applicant for disaster recovery funds. |
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| 7 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, is |
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| 9 | 15 | | amended by adding Section 552.160 to read as follows: |
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| 10 | 16 | | Sec. 552.160. CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION OF |
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| 11 | 17 | | APPLICANT FOR DISASTER RECOVERY FUNDS. (a) In this section, |
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| 12 | 18 | | "disaster" has the meaning assigned by Section 418.004. |
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| 13 | 19 | | (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the following |
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| 14 | 20 | | information maintained by a governmental body is confidential: |
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| 15 | 21 | | (1) the name, social security number, house number, |
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| 16 | 22 | | street name, and telephone number of an individual or household |
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| 17 | 23 | | that applies for state or federal disaster recovery funds; |
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| 18 | 24 | | (2) the name, tax identification number, address, and |
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| 19 | 25 | | telephone number of a business entity or an owner of a business |
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| 20 | 26 | | entity that applies for state or federal disaster recovery funds; |
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| 21 | 27 | | and |
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| 22 | 28 | | (3) any other information the disclosure of which |
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| 23 | 29 | | would identify or tend to identify a person or household that |
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| 24 | 30 | | applies for state or federal disaster recovery funds. |
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| 25 | 31 | | (c) The street name and census block group of and the amount |
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| 26 | 32 | | of disaster recovery funds awarded to a person or household are not |
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| 27 | 33 | | confidential after the date on which disaster recovery funds are |
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| 28 | 34 | | awarded to the person or household. |
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| 29 | 35 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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| 30 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 31 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 32 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 3175 was passed by the House on April |
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| 33 | | - | 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 1, 1 present, not |
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| 34 | | - | voting. |
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| 35 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 36 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 37 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 3175 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 38 | | - | 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 39 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 40 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 41 | | - | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 42 | | - | Date |
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| 43 | | - | _____________________ |
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| 44 | | - | Governor |
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| 36 | + | * * * * * |
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