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Texas Labor Code § 402.091

Failure to Maintain Confidentiality; Offense; Penalty

Operation and Administration of Workers' Compensation System · Records and Employee Information

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly publishes, discloses, or distributes information that is confidential under this subchapter to a person not authorized to receive the information directly from the division.

(b) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly receives information that is confidential under this subchapter and that the person is not authorized to receive.

(c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) An offense under this section may be prosecuted in a court in the county where the information was unlawfully received, published, disclosed, or distributed.

(e) A district court in Travis County has jurisdiction to enjoin the use, publication, disclosure, or distribution of confidential information under this section.

Official text of the Texas Labor Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 980, Sec. 1.18, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 265 (H.B. 7), Sec. 2.027, eff. September 1, 2005.

Sections that refer to this one

§ 404.111