Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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2	2	By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1540
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal
10	10	information of election officials and their employees.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 552.1175(a), Government Code, is amended
13	13	to read as follows:
14	14	(a) This section applies only to:
15	15	(1) current or honorably retired peace officers as
16	16	defined by Article 2A.001, Code of Criminal Procedure, or special
17	17	investigators as described by Article 2A.002, Code of Criminal
18	18	Procedure;
19	19	(2) current or honorably retired county jailers as
20	20	defined by Section 1701.001, Occupations Code;
21	21	(3) current or former employees of the Texas
22	22	Department of Criminal Justice or of the predecessor in function of
23	23	the department or any division of the department;
24	24	(4) commissioned security officers as defined by
25	25	Section 1702.002, Occupations Code;
26	26	(5) a current or former district attorney, criminal
27	27	district attorney, or county or municipal attorney whose
28	28	jurisdiction includes any criminal law or child protective services
29	29	matters;
30	30	(5-a) a current or former employee of a district
31	31	attorney, criminal district attorney, or county or municipal
32	32	attorney whose jurisdiction includes any criminal law or child
33	33	protective services matters;
34	34	(6) officers and employees of a community supervision
35	35	and corrections department established under Chapter 76 who perform
36	36	a duty described by Section 76.004(b);
37	37	(7) criminal investigators of the United States as
38	38	described by Article 2A.002(a), Code of Criminal Procedure;
39	39	(8) current or honorably retired police officers and
40	40	inspectors of the United States Federal Protective Service;
41	41	(9) current and former employees of the office of the
42	42	attorney general who are or were assigned to a division of that
43	43	office the duties of which involve law enforcement or are performed
44	44	under Chapter 231, Family Code;
45	45	(10) current or former juvenile probation and
46	46	detention officers certified by the Texas Juvenile Justice
47	47	Department, or the predecessors in function of the department,
48	48	under Title 12, Human Resources Code;
49	49	(11) current or former employees of a juvenile justice
50	50	program or facility, as those terms are defined by Section 261.405,
51	51	Family Code;
52	52	(12) current or former employees of the Texas Juvenile
53	53	Justice Department or the predecessors in function of the
54	54	department;
55	55	(13) federal judges and state judges as defined by
56	56	Section 1.005, Election Code;
57	57	(14) current or former employees of the Texas Civil
58	58	Commitment Office or of the predecessor in function of the office or
59	59	a division of the office;
60	60	(15) a current or former member of the United States
61	61	Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Marine Corps, an auxiliary
62	62	service of one of those branches of the armed forces, or the Texas
63	63	military forces, as that term is defined by Section 437.001;
64	64	(16) a current or former child protective services
65	65	caseworker, adult protective services caseworker, or investigator
66	66	for the Department of Family and Protective Services or a current or
67	67	former employee of a department contractor performing child
68	68	protective services caseworker, adult protective services
69	69	caseworker, or investigator functions for the contractor on behalf
70	70	of the department;
71	71	(17) an elected public officer;
72	72	(18) a firefighter or volunteer firefighter or
73	73	emergency medical services personnel as defined by Section 773.003,
74	74	Health and Safety Code; [and]
75	75	(19) a current or former United States attorney,
76	76	assistant United States attorney, federal public defender, deputy
77	77	federal public defender, or assistant federal public defender; or
78	78	(20) a current or former election official, as defined
79	79	by Section 1.005, Election Code, or employee, volunteer, or
80	80	designee of an election official, or an employee of the secretary of
81	81	state's office who performs duties relating to elections.
82	82	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
83	83	a request for information that is received by a governmental body or
84	84	an officer on or after the effective date of this Act. A request for
85	85	information that was received before the effective date of this Act
86	86	is governed by the law in effect on the date the request was
87	87	received, and the former law is continued in effect for that
88	88	purpose.
89	89	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.