Tex. Gov't Code § 418.179 · Subchapter H. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
CONFIDENTIALITY OF CERTAIN ENCRYPTION CODES AND SECURITY KEYS FOR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Information is confidential if the information:
(1) is collected, assembled, or maintained by or for a governmental entity for the purpose of preventing, detecting, or investigating an act of terrorism or related criminal activity or a hostile act by a foreign adversary of the United States; and
(2) relates to the details of the encryption codes or security keys for a public communications system.
(b) This section does not prohibit a governmental entity from making available, at cost, to bona fide local news media, for the purpose of monitoring emergency communications of public interest, the communications terminals used in the entity's trunked communications system that have encryption codes installed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1312, Sec. 3, eff. June 21, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 369 (H.B. 132), Sec. 3, eff. June 20, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.418.htm
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- 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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