Sec. 555.023. AGENCY FILE DIVERSIFICATION PERMITTED. (a) A state agency is not required to discontinue or convert its records management procedures or systems in existence before June 14, 1989, to comply with this chapter. An agency may continue to use those procedures and systems in conjunction with any changes made to comply with this chapter.

(b) A state agency may not impede public access to records through use of a records management procedure or system that existed before June 14, 1989, if the public is entitled by law to access.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.