Texas Administrative Code
Title 10 - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 1 - ADMINISTRATION
Subchapter A - GENERAL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Section 1.9 - Household Recipient Privacy Policy for Federal Funds or Assistance

(a) Capitalized words used herein have the meaning assigned in the specific Chapters and Rules of this Part that govern the program to which a Household or Family level recipient or beneficiary has applied, or as assigned by federal or state law.

(b) This policy applies for any federally funded Program or resource administered by the Department, either assisted directly by the Department or indirectly through a Vendor, Subrecipient or Owner, where the Department must adopt a privacy policy regarding privacy of individually identifiable information.

(c) Except as covered under an intergovernmental data-sharing agreement, or as necessary to administer the business and administrative functions of the Program, no individual shall have their name, address, race, gender, disability, or contact information (as provided in an application for assistance to the Department) released to a third-party unless a federal oversight agency has explicitly stipulated that the information must be made available or as otherwise authorized by the individual.

(d) This privacy policy is supplemented by any more restrictive privacy or protection directives required by a federal oversight agency, or other federal or state law.