Sec. 181.304.  OTHER DISCLOSURE PROHIBITED;  PENALTY.  (a)  Confidential information that is provided to a state trust company, affiliate, or service provider of the state trust company, whether in the form of a report of examination or otherwise, is the confidential property of the department.  The information may not be made public or disclosed by the recipient or by an officer, director, manager, employee, or agent of the recipient to a person not officially connected to the recipient as officer, director, employee, attorney, auditor, independent auditor, or bonding company, except as authorized by rules adopted under this subtitle.
(b)  A person commits an offense if the person discloses or uses the confidential information in violation of this section.  An offense under this subsection is punishable as if it were an offense under Section 37.10, Penal Code.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 7.16(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.