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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB132

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Official caption: Relating to the confidentiality of information used to prevent, detect, respond to, or investigate a hostile act of a foreign adversary of the United States.

Signed by governorSource-checked explanation published

Official report lists House author(s): Lopez, Ray, Hefner, Dorazio. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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Bill highlights

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HB132 extends six existing homeland-security confidentiality provisions to specified information concerning a “hostile act by a foreign adversary of the United States.” Previously these provisions referred to terrorism and, in several cases, related criminal activity.
These are the six changes in Sections 1–6 of the final law.
Important public-access safeguards remain: Financial information about governmental spending on a security system remains public under Section 418.182(b).
Not an absolute ban on authorized sharing: Existing Section 418.183 permits specified disaster-related and security-network sharing without waiving confidentiality and preserves specified hospital-accreditation disclosures.
The bill met its two-thirds voting condition and took effect when signed on June 20, 2025—not its fallback September 1 date.

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What does it do?

HB132 extends six existing homeland-security confidentiality provisions to specified information concerning a “hostile act by a foreign adversary of the United States.” Previously these provisions referred to terrorism and, in several cases, related criminal activity. It does not make every record about a foreign country confidential; each section’s other conditions still matter. The bill does not supply a new country list or a separate definition of “foreign adversary.” Final law; official history.

What information is affected:

Emergency-response staffing requirements, tactical plans and compilations of pager/telephone numbers, when collected, assembled or maintained by or for government for the specified security purposes.
Risk/vulnerability assessments meeting Section 418.177’s tests. HB132 expands the purpose clause, but leaves the separate assessment clause referring to vulnerability to terrorism or related criminal activity; it does not simply replace that remaining condition with “any foreign threat.”
Details of encryption codes or security keys for a public communications system, with the specified government collection/purpose conditions.
Nonfinancial information in a report to a U.S. agency, when it concerns the specified threats and is specifically required to remain confidential under federal law, a state-federal sharing agreement or a federal-funding condition.
Documents or portions identifying technical details of particular critical-infrastructure vulnerabilities to terrorism or hostile foreign-adversary acts.
Security-system specifications, operating procedures or location—including access codes/passwords—when the system protects public or private property from the listed threats, subject to existing exceptions.

These are the six changes in Sections 1–6 of the final law.

Important public-access safeguards remain. Financial information about governmental spending on a security system remains public under Section 418.182(b). The location of a security camera in a private office at a state agency, including a university, also remains public unless the camera is at an individual residence receiving state security or is being used in an active criminal investigation. Existing law also allows bona fide local news media access, at cost, to specified emergency-communications terminals with encryption already installed. Those provisions were not repealed. Government Code 418.179 and .182.

Not an absolute ban on authorized sharing. Existing Section 418.183 permits specified disaster-related and security-network sharing without waiving confidentiality and preserves specified hospital-accreditation disclosures. The governmental-entity definition also includes qualifying tax-exempt nonprofit water/wastewater corporations, not just conventional government agencies. HB132 leaves these surrounding rules intact. Existing scope and sharing rules.

The bill met its two-thirds voting condition and took effect when signed on June 20, 2025—not its fallback September 1 date. Final enactment certifications; history.

What changed along the way?

The introduced, House committee, engrossed, Senate committee and enrolled texts have the same policy provisions. Both committees reported the bill without amendments, and the official amendment index says it has none. Only printing markers and enrollment certifications differ across the policy-body comparisons; no floor amendment or conference compromise is being omitted. Version index; amendment index; introduced text; final text.

For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.

Official bill versions

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Potential benefits: emergency responders, public communications operators and infrastructure owners may gain protection against disclosure of sensitive operational information connected to hostile foreign acts. This is a confidentiality measure, not a new security grant, criminal offense or finding that attacks have been prevented.

Trade-offs: residents, journalists and researchers may have less access to records that now meet the expanded confidentiality tests. Government records staff must apply the specific conditions and preserved public-access exceptions; merely invoking foreign-adversary concerns does not establish that every requested record qualifies. This review does not decide an individual public-information request.

Fiscal estimate: the May 7 engrossed fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal implication, assuming costs can be absorbed within existing resources, and no significant local-government implication. The April 1 introduced note is consistent. The bill appropriates no funds; the estimate does not quantify the value of security benefits or reduced transparency. Latest fiscal note; introduced fiscal note.

Review boundary: checked final text, history, all five versions, the no-amendment index, both fiscal notes and the prior statutory text—including retained disclosure exceptions and sharing rules. No particular withheld record, agency practice or court ruling was audited.

Official sources

Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.