Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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2	2	By: Curry H.B. No. 4346
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the release of motor vehicle collision report
10	10	information.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 550.065, Transportation Code, is amended
13	13	by amending Subsections (b), (c), and (f) and adding Subsection
14	14	(e-1) to read as follows:
15	15	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), (c-1), or (e), the
16	16	information is privileged and for the confidential use of:
17	17	(1) the department; and
18	18	(2) an agency of the United States, this state, or a
19	19	local government of this state that has use for the information for
20	20	[collision prevention] purposes of collision prevention or a
21	21	criminal investigation conducted by a law enforcement agency.
22	22	(c) On written request and payment of any required fee, the
23	23	department or the governmental entity shall release the information
24	24	to:
25	25	(1) an entity described by Subsection (b);
26	26	(2) the law enforcement agency that employs the peace
27	27	officer who investigated the collision and sent the information to
28	28	the department, including a person acting on behalf [an agent] of
29	29	the law enforcement agency who is authorized by contract to obtain
30	30	the information;
31	31	(3) the court in which a case involving a person
32	32	involved in the collision is pending if the report is subpoenaed; or
33	33	(4) any person directly concerned in the collision or
34	34	having a proper interest therein, including:
35	35	(A) any person involved in the collision;
36	36	(B) the authorized representative of any person
37	37	involved in the collision;
38	38	(C) a driver involved in the collision;
39	39	(D) an employer, parent, or legal guardian of a
40	40	driver involved in the collision;
41	41	(E) the owner of a vehicle or property damaged in
42	42	the collision;
43	43	(F) a person who has established financial
44	44	responsibility for a vehicle involved in the collision in a manner
45	45	described by Section 601.051, including a policyholder of a motor
46	46	vehicle liability insurance policy covering the vehicle;
47	47	(G) an insurance company that issued an insurance
48	48	policy covering a vehicle involved in the collision;
49	49	(H) an insurance company that issued a policy
50	50	covering any person involved in the collision;
51	51	(I) a person under contract to provide claims or
52	52	underwriting information to a person described by Paragraph (F),
53	53	(G), or (H);
54	54	(J) a radio or television station that holds a
55	55	license issued by the Federal Communications Commission;
56	56	(K) a newspaper that is:
57	57	(i) a free newspaper of general circulation
58	58	or qualified under Section 2051.044, Government Code, to publish
59	59	legal notices;
60	60	(ii) published at least once a week; and
61	61	(iii) available and of interest to the
62	62	general public in connection with the dissemination of news;
63	63	(L) any person who may sue because of death
64	64	resulting from the collision; or
65	65	(M) an employee or authorized representative of a
66	66	vehicle storage facility, as defined by Section 2303.002,
67	67	Occupations Code, that stored a vehicle involved in the collision
68	68	[accident].
69	69	(e-1) In addition to the information required to be released
70	70	under Subsection (c), the governmental entity may release a vehicle
71	71	identification number and specific collision information relating
72	72	to that vehicle to a person described by Subsection (c)(2).
73	73	(f) The department or the governmental entity when
74	74	releasing information under Subsection (c-1), [or] (e), or (e-1):
75	75	(1) may not release personal information, as defined
76	76	by Section 730.003; and
77	77	(2) shall withhold or redact the following items:
78	78	(A) the first, middle, and last name of any
79	79	person listed in a collision report, including a vehicle driver,
80	80	occupant, owner, or lessee, a bicyclist, a pedestrian, or a
81	81	property owner;
82	82	(B) the number of any driver's license,
83	83	commercial driver's license, or personal identification
84	84	certificate issued to any person listed in a collision report;
85	85	(C) the date of birth, other than the year, of any
86	86	person listed in a collision report;
87	87	(D) the address, other than zip code, and
88	88	telephone number of any person listed in a collision report;
89	89	(E) the license plate number of any vehicle
90	90	listed in a collision report;
91	91	(F) the name of any insurance company listed as a
92	92	provider of financial responsibility for a vehicle listed in a
93	93	collision report;
94	94	(G) the number of any insurance policy issued by
95	95	an insurance company listed as a provider of financial
96	96	responsibility;
97	97	(H) the date the peace officer who investigated
98	98	the collision was notified of the collision;
99	99	(I) the date the investigating peace officer
100	100	arrived at the collision site;
101	101	(J) the badge number or identification number of
102	102	the investigating officer;
103	103	(K) the date on which any person who died as a
104	104	result of the collision died;
105	105	(L) the date of any commercial motor vehicle
106	106	report; and
107	107	(M) the place where any person injured or killed
108	108	in a collision was taken and the person or entity that provided the
109	109	transportation.
110	110	SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
111	111	over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
112	112	relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
113	113	codes.
114	114	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.