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House Bill 961 |
House Author: Turner |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Hinojosa |
House Bill 961 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Family Code to make confidential and to prohibit from being disclosed to the public, with certain exceptions, all records and files and information stored by electronic means or otherwise, from which a record or file could be generated, relating to a child who is convicted of and has satisfied the judgment for a fine-only misdemeanor other than a traffic offense or whose conviction for such a misdemeanor is affirmed. The bill authorizes disclosure of such confidential information for inspection by certain specified persons and repeals provisions of the Government Code to make conforming changes relating to the confidentiality of certain child records.
House Bill 961 amends the Family Code to lower from 21 years of age to 19 years of age the minimum age at which a person adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct that violated a penal law of the grade of felony is eligible for a court order sealing the records concerning the person. The bill lowers from 21 years of age to 17 years of age the minimum age at which a person is eligible for automatic restriction of juvenile case records submitted to the juvenile justice information system.