Sec. 521.153. PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN RECORDS REGARDING RACE-BASED PRICING. (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 441, Government Code, the department shall preserve all examinations, exhibits to examinations, and other relevant documents regarding race-based pricing that the department has gathered or created with respect to a race-based pricing investigation that is completed or ongoing on September 1, 2009, other than those for which an attorney-client or attorney work product privilege can be claimed, until the time that those documents are eligible for delivery under Subsection (b).
(b) On the completion of the department's race-based pricing investigation, but not later than January 15, 2011, the department shall deliver the records identified under Subsection (a) or copies of those records to the state archivist.
(c) The state archives shall:
(1) using best efforts, preserve and catalogue the records identified under Subsection (a); and
(2) make the records available to the public as soon as appropriate, but not later than January 15, 2015.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 756 (S.B. 698), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.