By: Button, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Johnson) H.B. No. 2788          (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2025;   May 7, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic   Development; May 14, 2025, reported favorably by the following   vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 2025, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the disclosure of certain fraud detection information   obtained in the administration of the unemployment compensation   system.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Labor Code, is   amended by adding Section 301.087 to read as follows:          Sec. 301.087.  CERTAIN FRAUD DETECTION INFORMATION NOT   PUBLIC INFORMATION. (a)  In this section, "fraud detection   information" means any information, including risk assessments,   reports, data, protocols, technology specifications, manuals,   instructions, investigative materials, crossmatches, mental   impressions, and communications, that may reveal the methods or   means by which the commission prevents, investigates, or evaluates   fraud in its administration of Subtitle A.          (b)  Fraud detection information is not public information   for purposes of Chapter 552, Government Code, and is excepted from   the requirements of Section 552.021 of that code.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *