Bill Text: TX HB5137 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for the use on the state's international border of motion detection cameras and for camera data storage from those cameras.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to State Affairs [HB5137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5137-Introduced.html
| By: Troxclair | H.B. No. 5137 | |
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| relating to requirements for the use on the state's international | ||
| border of motion detection cameras and for camera data storage from | ||
| those cameras. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.00951 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.00951. REQUIREMENTS FOR BORDER MOTION DETECTION | ||
| CAMERAS AND DATA STORAGE. (a) In this section, "company" has the | ||
| meaning assigned by Business & Commerce Code, Section 113.001. | ||
| (b) In any program the department establishes or has | ||
| established to monitor this state's international border, the | ||
| department shall use motion detection cameras manufactured in this | ||
| state and by a company headquartered in this state. | ||
| (c) The department may not use a device to store data from a | ||
| motion detection camera unless the device is: | ||
| (1) located in the United States; and | ||
| (2) operated by a company headquartered in this state. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), if the department | ||
| cannot use a motion detection camera described in Subsection (b), | ||
| the department shall: | ||
| (1) use a motion detection camera that is | ||
| manufactured: | ||
| (A) outside this state but within the United | ||
| States; and | ||
| (B) by a company headquartered outside this state | ||
| but within the United States; and | ||
| (2) use FIRSTNET motion detection cameras. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), the department may use | ||
| a device to store data from a motion detection camera that is | ||
| operated outside this state but within the United States if a | ||
| company described in Subsection (c)(2) cannot store the data. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 411.00951, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a contract for the purchase of motion | ||
| detection cameras or the storage of data from motion detection | ||
| cameras entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
