By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2068
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2025; March 24, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 14, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2068 By: West
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the duty of an appraisal district to keep confidential
certain identifying information provided by a property owner.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.48(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) A driver's license number, personal identification
certificate number, or social security account number, or the name,
age, home address, or home telephone number of a child, provided in
an application for an exemption filed with a chief appraiser is
confidential and not open to public inspection. The information
may not be disclosed to anyone other than an employee or agent of
the appraisal district who appraises property or performs appraisal
services for the appraisal district, except as authorized by
Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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