Tex. Gov't Code § 560.002 · Chapter 560. BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER
DISCLOSURE OF BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A governmental body that possesses a biometric identifier of an individual:
(1) may not sell, lease, or otherwise disclose the biometric identifier to another person unless:
(A) the individual consents to the disclosure;
(B) the disclosure is required or permitted by a federal statute or by a state statute other than Chapter 552; or
(C) the disclosure is made by or to a law enforcement agency for a law enforcement purpose; and
(2) shall store, transmit, and protect from disclosure the biometric identifier using reasonable care and in a manner that is the same as or more protective than the manner in which the governmental body stores, transmits, and protects its other confidential information.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 634, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Renumbered from Government Code Sec. 559.002 by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1275, Sec. 2(78), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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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.560.htm
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