Tex. Gov't Code § 323.015 · Chapter 323. TEXAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
COMPUTER SECURITY; PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly gains access to information stored or maintained by a computer under the control of the council and the person is not authorized by the council to have access to that information.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly damages, destroys, deletes, or alters or impairs access to or use of information stored or maintained by a computer under the control of the council and the person is not authorized by the council to do so.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to an interruption of utility service or other service that causes the damage, destruction, deletion, or alteration of or impairment of access to or use of the information unless the interruption was intended to have that result.
(d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 167, Sec. 2.11(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.323.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 bf89e195ef4bc7df73c65574a631c115c8fbddaa3ff8e410612c48c0fc1aecec
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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