Tex. Gov't Code § 2062.002 · Chapter 2062. RESTRICTIONS ON STATE AGENCY USE AND DISSEMINATION OF CERTAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION
CONSENT REQUIRED BEFORE ACQUIRING, RETAINING, OR DISSEMINATING CERTAIN INFORMATION; RECORDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a state agency may not:
(1) use global positioning system technology, individual contact tracing, or technology designed to obtain biometric identifiers to acquire information that alone or in conjunction with other information identifies an individual or the individual's location without the individual's written or electronic consent;
(2) retain information with respect to an individual described by Subdivision (1) without the individual's written or electronic consent; or
(3) disseminate to a person the information described by Subdivision (1) with respect to an individual unless the state agency first obtains the individual's written or electronic consent.
(b) A state agency may acquire, retain, and disseminate information described by Subsection (a) with respect to an individual without the individual's written or electronic consent if the acquisition, retention, or dissemination is:
(1) required or permitted by a federal statute or by a state statute other than Chapter 552; or
(2) made by or to a law enforcement agency for a law enforcement purpose.
(c) A state agency shall retain the written or electronic consent of an individual obtained as required under this section in the agency's records until the contract or agreement under which the information is acquired, retained, or disseminated expires.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 567 (S.B. 475), Sec. 10, eff. September 1, 2021.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2062.htm
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