Tex. Gov't Code § 559.005 · Chapter 559. STATE GOVERNMENT PRIVACY POLICIES
APPLICABILITY OF AND CONSTRUCTION WITH PUBLIC INFORMATION LAW.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Chapter 552 governs the charges that a state governmental body may impose on an individual who requests information the governmental body collects about the individual. The governmental body may not charge an individual to correct information about the individual.
(b) To the extent of a conflict between this chapter and the public information law, Chapter 552, Chapter 552 controls.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1059, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.559.htm
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