Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 140B.062 · Subchapter B. CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY
DISCLOSURE AND USE OF MATERIAL AND INFORMATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The civil investigative demand issued by the attorney general or local prosecutor, any information obtained, maintained, or created in response to the demand, or any documentary material, product of discovery, or other record derived or created during an investigation from the information, is not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code, and is not subject to disclosure, discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion for the release, except as described in Subsections (b) and (c).
(b) The attorney general or local prosecutor may not release or disclose information that is obtained in response to a demand or any documentary material, product of discovery, or other record derived from the information except:
(1) by court order for good cause shown;
(2) with the consent of the person who provided the information to the attorney general or local prosecutor;
(3) to an employee or other person under the direction of the attorney general or local prosecutor;
(4) to an agency of this state, the United States, or another state or foreign country;
(5) to a political subdivision of this state; or
(6) to a person authorized by the attorney general or local prosecutor to receive the information.
(c) The attorney general or local prosecutor may use information obtained in response to a demand, or any documentary material, product of discovery, or other record derived or created from the information as the attorney general or local prosecutor determines necessary in the enforcement of this chapter, including presentation before court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 4635), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.
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