Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 140B.062 — DISCLOSURE AND USE OF MATERIAL AND INFORMATION

CP § 140B.062Title 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS · Ch. 140B. CIVIL REMEDIES AND ENFORCEMENT RELATED TO RACKETEERING AND UNLAWFUL DEBT COLLECTION · Art. B. CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY

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(a)The civil investigative demand issued by the attorney general or local prosecutor, any information obtained, maintained, or created in response to the demand, or any documentary material, product of discovery, or other record derived or created during an investigation from the information, is not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code, and is not subject to disclosure, discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion for the release, except as described in Subsections (b) and (c).

(b)The attorney general or local prosecutor may not release or disclose information that is obtained in response to a demand or any documentary material, product of discovery, or other record derived from the information except:

(1)by court order for good cause shown;

(2)with the consent of the person who provided the information to the attorney general or local prosecutor;

(3)to an employee or other person under the direction of the attorney general or local prosecutor;

(4)to an agency of this state, the United States, or another state or foreign country;

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 4635), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.