87R30259 JAM-D
By: Nichols S.R. No. 545
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on Senate
Bill 15 (the Texas Consumer Privacy Act Phase I; creating criminal
offenses; increasing the punishment for an existing criminal
offense) to consider and take action on the following matter:
Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee to
add text on a matter not included in either the house or senate
version of the bill in proposed SECTION 8 of the bill by adding
Section 730.007(a-2), Transportation Code, to read as follows:
(a-2) Subsection (a)(2)(C) does not authorize the
disclosure of personal information to a natural person who is not a
business licensed by, registered with, or subject to regulatory
oversight by a government agency.
Explanation: The addition is necessary to clarify that
certain provisions of the Act do not authorize the disclosure of
personal information to a natural person who is not a business
licensed by, registered with, or subject to regulatory oversight by
a governmental agency.