89R12032 MCK-F
By: Moody H.B. No. 2961
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to access under the public information law to certain
information held by a law enforcement agency or prosecutor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 552.108(d), Government Code, as added by
Chapter 986 (H.B. 30), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2023, is redesignated as Section 552.108(c-1), Government
Code, and amended to read as follows:
(c-1) [(d)] The exceptions [exception] to disclosure
provided by Subsections [Subsection] (a)(2) and (b)(2) do [does]
not apply to information, records, or notations if:
(1) a person who is described by or depicted in the
information, record, or notation, other than a peace officer, is
deceased or incapacitated; or
(2) each person who is described by or depicted in the
information, record, or notation, other than a person who is
deceased or incapacitated, consents to the release of the
information, record, or notation.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
552.108, Government Code, apply only to a request for information
that is received by a governmental body or an officer or employee of
a governmental body on or after the effective date of this Act. A
request for information that was received before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the request
was received, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.