H.B. No. 1141

AN ACT

relating to the confidentiality of certain home address information in local tax appraisal records regarding current or former peace officers and regarding a current or former employee of a prosecutor’s office or of certain offices with jurisdiction over child protective services matters. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 25.025(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) This section applies only to: (1) a current or former peace officer as defined by Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure; (2) a county jailer as defined by Section 1701.001, Occupations Code; (3) an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; (4) a commissioned security officer as defined by Section 1702.002, Occupations Code; [and] (5) a victim of family violence as defined by Section 71.004, Family Code, if as a result of the act of family violence against the victim, the actor is convicted of a felony or a Class A misdemeanor; and (6) a current or former employee of a district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county or municipal attorney whose jurisdiction includes any criminal law or child protective services matters. SECTION 2. 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, 2007.

______________________________ ______________________________ President of the Senate            Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1141 was passed by the House on March 15, 2007, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1141 on May 25, 2007, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1141 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 23, 2007, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: __________________ Date

__________________ Governor