| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2025; March 25, 2025, read |
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| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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| 4 | + | April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | + | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 14, 2025, |
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| 6 | + | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | + | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2323 By: Johnson |
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| 6 | 13 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 14 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 15 | | relating to the disclosure of certain information regarding a |
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| 9 | 16 | | record of a collision or violation involving a person operating a |
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| 10 | 17 | | railroad locomotive or train. |
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| 11 | 18 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 19 | | SECTION 1. Section 192.005, Transportation Code, is amended |
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| 13 | 20 | | to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 21 | | Sec. 192.005. RECORD OF COLLISION OR VIOLATION. If a person |
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| 15 | 22 | | operating a railroad locomotive or train is involved in a collision |
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| 16 | 23 | | with another train, [or] a motor vehicle, or a pedestrian or is |
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| 17 | 24 | | arrested for violation of a law relating to the person's operation |
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| 18 | 25 | | of a railroad locomotive or train: |
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| 19 | 26 | | (1) the number of or other identifying information on |
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| 20 | 27 | | the person's driver's license or commercial driver's license may not |
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| 21 | 28 | | be included in any report of the collision or violation; and |
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| 22 | 29 | | (2) the person's involvement in the collision or |
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| 23 | 30 | | violation may not be recorded in the person's individual driving |
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| 24 | 31 | | record maintained by the Department of Public Safety. |
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| 25 | 32 | | SECTION 2. Chapter 192, Transportation Code, is amended by |
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| 26 | 33 | | adding Section 192.006 to read as follows: |
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| 27 | 34 | | Sec. 192.006. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION FROM RECORD |
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| 28 | 35 | | OF COLLISION OR VIOLATION. The personally identifying information |
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| 29 | 36 | | of a railroad locomotive or train crew shall be redacted from a |
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| 30 | 37 | | report of a collision or violation described by Section 192.005(1) |
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| 31 | 38 | | and may not be disclosed except: |
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| 32 | 39 | | (1) to a law enforcement officer or agent; |
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| 33 | 40 | | (2) to a state attorney; |
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| 34 | 41 | | (3) to the railroad company; |
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| 35 | 42 | | (A) on whose tracks the collision or violation |
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| 36 | 43 | | occurred; or |
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| 37 | 44 | | (B) who employed the crew at the time of the |
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| 38 | 45 | | collision or violation; |
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| 39 | 46 | | (4) to a regulatory agency with oversight of |
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| 40 | 47 | | railroads; |
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| 41 | 48 | | (5) to a person specifically authorized by court order |
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| 42 | 49 | | to receive the information, if access to the information is |
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| 43 | 50 | | necessary to the performance of the person's duties; or |
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| 44 | 51 | | (6) to legal counsel representing a party injured in a |
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| 45 | 52 | | collision or as a result of a violation that is the subject of the |
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| 46 | 53 | | report, on receipt of a letter requesting that information. |
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| 47 | 54 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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