73R1131 DAK-F
          By De La Garza, et al.                                 H.B. No. 247
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the notification of certain statewide and national
    1-3  criminal information systems when a warrant is issued for a
    1-4  juvenile.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 51.14(c), Family Code, as amended by
    1-7  Section 4 of Chapter 385, Section 3 of Chapter 515, and Section 1
    1-8  of Chapter 576, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session,
    1-9  1987, is amended to read as follows:
   1-10        (c)  Except as provided by this subsection, law-enforcement
   1-11  files and records concerning a child shall be kept separate from
   1-12  files and records of arrests of adults and shall be maintained on a
   1-13  local basis only and not sent to a central state or federal
   1-14  depository.  The <However, the> law-enforcement files and records
   1-15  of a person who is transferred from the Texas Youth Commission to
   1-16  the Texas Department of Corrections under a determinate sentence
   1-17  may be transferred to a central state or federal depository for
   1-18  adult records on or after the date of transfer.  If a child has
   1-19  been reported as missing by a parent, guardian, or conservator of
   1-20  that child, <or a child> has escaped from the custody of a juvenile
   1-21  detention facility, the Texas Youth Commission, or any other agency
   1-22  to which the child has been committed, or is the subject of a bench
   1-23  warrant or felony arrest warrant issued by a court after the child
   1-24  has fled the jurisdiction of the court, any information or records
    2-1  concerning that child may be transferred to and disseminated by the
    2-2  Texas Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information
    2-3  Center.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.