Bill Text: TX HB1655 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1655 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the availability of dates of birth under the public information law.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-21 - Co-sponsor authorized [HB1655 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1655-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Hunter, Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Johnson)	H.B. No. 1655
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019;
	April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Business & Commerce; May 6, 2019, reported favorably by the
	following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 6, 2019, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the availability of dates of birth under the public
	information law.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 552.0222 to read as follows:
	Sec. 552.0222. DATES OF BIRTH. Notwithstanding Section
	552.101, this chapter does not authorize a governmental body to
	withhold a date of birth except as:
	(1) permitted by Section 552.102;
	(2) permitted by the federal privacy requirements
	adopted under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
	Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No. 104-191) contained in 45 C.F.R. Part 160
	and 45 C.F.R. Part 164; or
	(3) otherwise provided by constitutional or statutory
	law.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	a request for information that is received by a governmental body or
	an officer for public information 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. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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