SB1569

First, the act adds these leaders to Government Code 552.117(a), which excepts home addresses, home phone numbers, emergency contacts, Social Security numbers and information revealing whether a person has family members from required public disclosure. It does not make every record about a college leader confidential. The new categories identify board members and chief executives; they do not expressly say “current or former,” as several other categories do. Final law; Prior section 552.117.

Second, it adds the same groups to section 552.1175. That section’s existing confidentiality procedure covers the listed personal information and date of birth when the individual chooses to restrict access and notifies the governmental body on its form, with evidence of qualifying status. The choice remains effective until rescinded in writing. This election-based protection should not be described as automatically hiding every record in every agency’s files. SB1569 itself does not rewrite the section’s election, redaction-review or clerk-filed-document provisions. Final law; Existing section 552.1175 procedures.

Third, it adds the groups to Tax Code 25.025(a). Under the existing appraisal-record procedure, a covered individual can choose restricted access on the comptroller-prescribed form when records identify that named person’s home address. The information remains available for specified official government uses, and the choice lasts until rescinded in writing. The section does not prohibit disclosure of an address identifying property when it does not connect the address with an individual who elected protection. This is a privacy provision, not a property-tax exemption or reduction. Final law; Appraisal-record protection and limits.

The Tax Code amendment also reconciles overlapping numbering from 2023 laws, preserving the previously covered border-protection, corrections-health-provider and child-protection-attorney categories while adding the college leaders. The act prevails over conflicting nonsubstantive code-correction legislation from the same regular session. All five indexed bill versions have the same operative text, and no amendments are indexed. There is no separate adopted floor change to attribute. Introduced; Senate committee; Senate-passed; House committee; Final law; Version index; Amendment index.

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Qualifying leaders gain protection for specified personal details, which could reduce exposure of home and family information. People requesting public records have less access to those protected details, and agencies and appraisal districts must apply the relevant rules. The act does not authorize withholding all institutional business, spending or policy records merely because they mention a leader. The Legislative Budget Board’s March 13 open-government statement expressly identifies a restriction on the open-records law. Final law; Open-government impact statement.

The March 17 fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local-government fiscal impact and assumes state costs can be absorbed with existing resources. It contains no dollar forecast or multiyear cost table; that is not proof of zero workload for every institution or records office. SB1569 makes no appropriation. Fiscal note; Final law.