SB1841

Protected information: the existing protections cover contact information, license plates, toll tags, payment-card numbers, parking dates and parking amounts. The act broadens the setting from an airport parking facility to an airport facility and adds profile names tied to purchases or other online or in-person activity; travel dates and flight information; purchase dates, times and amounts; airport-lounge memberships; and trusted-traveler information. The specified personal identifying information is confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Texas Public Information Act. Final law, Sections 1–2.

Who holds the records matters: one provision covers local governments—Texas counties and municipalities. The other covers a joint board whose constituent agencies are home-rule municipalities with populations above 400,000. It retains the board’s existing protection for specified commercial-online-payment information. This is not a blanket confidentiality rule for every airport document, every airline or every private business. Final law; Local-government definition; Joint-board definitions.

Timing: the changes apply to public-information requests received on or after September 1, 2025. The trigger is the date of the request, not necessarily the date the information was collected. This act does not itself require deletion of the information or establish a new ban on collecting it. Final law, Sections 1–4.

Passage: the introduced, Senate committee, Senate-passed, House committee and enrolled versions have identical operative provisions. Both committees reported the bill without amendments, and the official amendment index lists none. Introduced; Senate committee; Senate-passed; House committee; Final law; Version index; Amendment index.

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

Airport users may gain privacy for sensitive travel and purchasing information in these government records. People seeking the covered personal records lose access through ordinary public-information disclosure, and records staff must apply the expanded confidentiality rule. The act does not establish that every airport record is confidential or guarantee protection from a data breach. Final law.

The March 20 fiscal note anticipates no state fiscal implication and no significant local-government fiscal implication. It does not quantify private savings, cybersecurity costs or individual financial benefits. The act makes no appropriation. Official fiscal note; Final law.