Bill Text: TX HB2435 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of the home or residence address of a state or federal judge or the judge's spouse in certain government records and documents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-14 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2435 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2435-Introduced.html
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By: Smith | H.B. No. 2435 |
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relating to the confidentiality of the home or residence address of | ||
a state or federal judge or the judge's spouse in certain government | ||
records and documents. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.025(b), Tax Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) Information in appraisal records under Section 25.02 is | ||
confidential and is available only for the official use of the | ||
appraisal district, this state, the comptroller, and taxing units | ||
and political subdivisions of this state if: | ||
(1) the information identifies the home address of a | ||
named individual to whom this section applies; and | ||
(2) the individual: | ||
(A) chooses to restrict public access to the | ||
information on the form prescribed for that purpose by the | ||
comptroller under Section 5.07; or | ||
(B) is a federal or state judge [ |
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state judge, beginning on the date the Office of Court | ||
Administration of the Texas Judicial System notifies the appraisal | ||
district of the judge's qualification for the judge's office. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 521.121(c), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The department shall establish a procedure, on a license | ||
holder's qualification for office as a federal or state judge as | ||
defined by Section 13.0021, Election Code [ |
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the judge on the license holder's license and to include, in lieu of | ||
that address, the street address of the courthouse in which the | ||
license holder or license holder's spouse serves as a federal judge | ||
or state judge. | ||
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. |