Sec. 777.012.  NUMBER AND LOCATION IDENTIFICATION SERVICE.  (a)  In this section:
(1)  "Service provider" means an entity providing local exchange access lines to a service user and includes a business service user that provides residential facilities and owns or leases a public or private telephone switch used to provide telephone service to facility residents.
(2)  "Service user" means a person that is provided local exchange access lines, or their equivalent.
(b)  A service provider shall furnish to a poison control center for each call to an emergency line of the center the telephone number of the subscribers and the address associated with the number.
(c)  Information furnished to a poison control center under this section is confidential and is not available for public inspection.  Information contained in an address database used to provide the number or location identification information under this section is confidential and is not available for public inspection.  The service provider or a third party that maintains an address database is not liable to any person for the release of information furnished by the service provider or third party in providing number or location identification information under this section, unless the act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1405, Sec. 33, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.