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.

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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.

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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.

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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date

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Governor