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2016 SESSION

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HB 906 Ministers; communications between persons they counsel or advise.

Introduced by: J. Randall Minchew | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise. Provides that the testimony of a minister of religion that would disclose information communicated to the minister of religion confidentially by a person who sought spiritual counsel or advice from the minister of religion shall not be permitted in a civil action over the objection of the person. The bill extends the "priest-penitent" privilege to individuals who seek spiritual counsel or advice from a minister of religion. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.

FULL TEXT

• 01/12/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100549D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/12/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100549D
• 01/12/16  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/19/16  House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
• 01/20/16  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/16  House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/16  House: Read first time
• 02/01/16  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/02/16  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/02/16  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/16  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/03/16  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/17/16  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)