2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB5093
HB5093 removes one statutory barrier to the Texas secretary of state's disclosure of a notary public's home address, home telephone number or email address.
Official caption: Relating to disclosure under the public information law of certain contact information of a notary public that is maintained by the secretary of state.
Official report lists House author(s): Bhojani, Moody, Hayes, Schofield, Johnson. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- HB5093 removes one statutory barrier to the Texas secretary of state's disclosure of a notary public's home address, home telephone number or email address.
- Existing Section 552.11765 generally protects state licensing applications and specified personal information.
- The wording removes this particular confidentiality prohibition; it does not itself require a particular online directory or say that every disclosure is lawful regardless of other applicable protections.
- Sources: final law; official history; licensing-information protections and exceptions.
What does it do?
HB5093 removes one statutory barrier to the Texas secretary of state’s disclosure of a notary public’s home address, home telephone number or email address. It applies to notaries appointed under Government Code Chapter 406, Subchapter A, and took effect September 1, 2025.
Existing Section 552.11765 generally protects state licensing applications and specified personal information. The bill adds a narrow exception: that subsection does not prohibit the secretary of state from disclosing these three contact details for a covered notary. It does not open every notary record, remove protections for Social Security numbers, birth dates or payment details, or create a new public list of all personal information.
The wording removes this particular confidentiality prohibition; it does not itself require a particular online directory or say that every disclosure is lawful regardless of other applicable protections. Names, license numbers and license status already had a separate public-information exception before this bill.
Sources: final law; official history; licensing-information protections and exceptions.
What changed along the way?
No amendments are listed in the official amendment index. All five indexed versions—introduced, House committee, engrossed, Senate committee and enrolled—contain the same operative disclosure exception and effective-date language. There was no substantive version change to summarize.
The governor signed the bill June 20, 2025, but it did not take effect immediately. Its immediate-effect clause required two-thirds of all elected members in each chamber; the enrolled House vote was 79–39, below that threshold. The official history confirms September 1, 2025.
Sources: all text versions; amendment index; final certification and effective-date clause.
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?
People seeking to contact a notary may benefit if the secretary of state releases the covered information. Notaries may face a privacy tradeoff when the disclosed contact detail is a home address or personal number. The law does not quantify additional access, unwanted contacts or other effects, and this review does not claim that a specific notary’s information has been released.
The May 22, 2025 fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local fiscal impact. The secretary of state expected implementation costs to fit within existing resources. The April 13 introduced note gives the same assessment. Neither supplies a dollar estimate, guarantees zero cost or appropriates money.
Review boundary: the complete final bill, all five versions, history, no-amendment index, both indexed fiscal notes and pre-effective licensing/notary definitions were checked. This is a review of the statutory exception, not a decision on an individual public-records request or an audit of current agency disclosure practices.
Sources: May 22 fiscal note; April 13 fiscal note; notary appointments.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
