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.
2-11 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-12 Amend H.B. 247 on page 1, lines 23 and 24, by deleting the words
2-13 "after the child has fled the jurisdiction of the court,".
2-14 Combs